[LLVMdev] Recent clang 3.7 RC1 release broke Travis CI integration

[Hans Wennborg]

This is probably due to trunk getting its version bumped from 3.7 to 3.8.

+sylvestre who maintaines llvm.org/apt.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Brian Smith <brian at briansmith.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Until Friday of last week, it was possible to install a package named
> "clang-3.7" from the llvm-toolchain-precise repository linked to from
> http://llvm.org/apt/. However, at about the same time 3.7 RC1 was announced,
> that stopped working. People who use Travis CI for integration testing
> frequently depend on being able to retrieve clang this way so that they can
> test their applications built with clang 3.7.
>
> What is the currently-recommended way to get an apt package of clang-3.7?
>
> Also, I have a suggestion for the future: It seems that the current LLVM
> project policy is to only create a llvm-toolchain-precise-X.Y repository
> when version X.Y has been released. Until then, the prerelease versions of
> clang are only available from the llvm-toolchain-precise repo. It would be
> more convenient for users of Travis CI and similar integration tools if the
> llvm-toolchain-precise-X.Y repo was created at the start of the cycle for
> version X.Y instead of the end.
>
> In particular, it would be great if the llvm-toolchain-precise-3.8
> repository could be created now for the 3.8 prereleases, instead of later
> when 3.8 is released.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
> --
> https://briansmith.org/