<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:53 AM, John Criswell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Owen Anderson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:44 AM, John Criswell wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">1) If technically possible, add the new API first, get it working, <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">email<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">llvmdev describing the old and new APIs, provide some lead time for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">people to change over, and then remove the old APIs. This makes it<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">easier to plan when I fix problems due to LLVM API changes and when I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">can work on our own bugs. :)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The high-level change was already described and discussed on LLVMdev.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>First, did you discuss it or announce it? There's a difference.<br><br>With its high traffic volume, I don't read all llvmdev mails anymore. I<br>pick and choose based on their subject lines. A subject entitled "API<br>Change: LLVMContext" will probably get my attention while<br>"Multi-threading support for LLVM" will not.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>How about a subject line "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; ">[LLVMdev] MAJOR API CHANGE: LLVMContext"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">?</span></div><div><br></div><div>--Owen</div></body></html>