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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/15/2015 10:13 AM, Reid Spencer
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Hello LLVMers,
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<div class="">It has been a while (8 years?) since I’ve been
involved with LLVM but I’m considering picking it up again. My
recent review of the code base has led me to wonder if it isn’t
time to update the code base, specifically:</div>
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My personal responses:<br>
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<li class="">Convert to GIT</li>
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I'd love it, but others might object.<br>
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<li class="">Refactor into smaller, separate, reusable
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Not worth it.<br>
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<li class="">Host the master repository at GitHub (amongst
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I think this might be a good idea.<br>
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<div class="">My reasons for doing this don’t have to do with the
code repository choice, but rather encouraging innovation.
LLVM’s private and centralized repository is now hurting the
project, I believe. The GIT model fosters better code sharing
and GitHub in particular makes integration of new ideas
significantly easier. It is my opinion that LLVM is missing out
on contributions simply because it doesn’t utilize the modern
cloud-based tools.</div>
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<div class="">So, what’s your (developer) response to this? “No
way in hell”, “Interesting idea”, “We should do that”, or “Why
haven’t we done it yet?”</div>
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<div class="">FYI: Yes, I’m signing up to do a bunch of the leg
work if the development community wants this. If not, I’ll make
other plans. </div>
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<div class="">Sorry if this topic has been covered .. the archives
are not searchable (google group, anyone?).</div>
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There are various searchable archives of the mailing list online.
In practice, I find google does a really good job of finding
relevant discussion threads.<br>
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