[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] GN build roundtable summary; adding GN build files to the repo

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cfe-dev [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Kelly via cfe-dev
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 4:20 PM
> To: cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] GN build roundtable summary; adding GN build files
> to the repo
> 
> On 31/10/2018 18:18, Nico Weber via cfe-dev wrote:
> > Keeping the GN build going would be the responsibility of people using
> > it, not of the general LLVM community.
> 
> If these files exist in the repo, I could imagine that reviewers will
> reject patches that might/likely break the gn files.
> 
> I could also imagine that contributors will be pressured to fix breakage
> of gn files that they introduce, or commits being reverted etc.
> 
> So, I'm not sure that a policy of 'it's ok to break this stuff' will
> actually work.

If there are public bots using GN, which I think Nico said some people
wanted to do, that really won't work.  (Private bots that don't complain
to the general user community are a different story.)
--paulr

> 
> Do you think there will be some point in time that these files will be
> out of 'experimental' status?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stephen.
> 
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