[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] [3.6 Release] RC3 has been tagged

[Tom Honermann]

On 02/19/2015 04:28 PM, Renato Golin wrote:
> On 19 February 2015 at 19:58, Tom Honermann <thonermann at coverity.com> wrote:
>> The effort isn't always so small for us however.  It has generally taken us
>> about a month to upgrade and vet a new Clang release.  The Clang release
>> cadence is faster than ours, so timing isn't always great (not a complaint,
>> just a reality).
>
> That's why most developers keep in sync with ToT. It hurts a lot less
> than yearly migrations, even if you only release your software once a
> year. And you can still rely on release tests as a point-in-time of
> stability.

It hurts less at one time, yes.  But syncing often is actually more 
costly due to overhead involved with each sync, at least for us.  We 
aren't in a position to just merge ToT, try a build, and see what 
happens due to various automated build required integration processes. 
Not your concern though :)

Tom.