[cfe-dev] Renaming

[Douglas Gregor]

On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As recently threatened, I am going to rename things and shuffle a  
> few things around in the source tree this evening. These are the  
> changes I plan to make:
>
> 1. Rename the clang compiler executable (currently 'clang') to  
> 'clang-cc';

Yay!

> rewrite all the test cases to call clang-cc instead of clang.

This is a good temporary measure, so that the name change doesn't  
affect our testing. Longer term, I hope we move our testing over to  
use the driver, so that our testing mimics the interface that our  
users see.

> 2. Move clang/Driver to clang/tools/clang-cc (to match the name, and  
> llvm, and not be confusingly named Driver).
>
> 3. Change clang-driver to be called 'clang'. I plan to leave it in  
> tools/driver because clang is pretty ambiguous, but I will move it  
> to tools/clang if someone argues for it being inconsistent.
>
> 4. Change clang-cc to be installed in 'libexec/clang/', and update  
> the driver to look for it there.
>
> 5. Do nothing with ccc. There are still a few details to iron out  
> and testing to be done on the new driver; I expect to keep ccc  
> around for another week or so.
>
> OK?
>

Sounds good.

	- Doug