[cfe-dev] Using clang as production compiler for chrome/mac

[Eric Christopher]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Nico Weber wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Eric Christopher <echristo at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 9, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Nico Weber wrote:
>> 
>> I imagine that it might be useful for the clang project, since we have
>> quite a bit of monitoring in chromium land (automated perf graphs,
>> compile time graphs, crash reporting that $many users have opted in
>> to), so that we could find and report regressions in clang reasonably
>> quickly. Do you think this is interesting at all?
>> 
>> I do think this is interesting. It shouldn't be too bad since one of the
>> goals
>> we have for clang is to keep it roughly shippable at all times on ToT.
> 
> Would you mind if we keep our branches in the upstream llvm svn repo?
> They would be numerous (we typically start a new stable release every
> six weeks) but wouldn't see much traffic.

I don't think it would be much of a problem, branches are cheap. :)

You'll want to make a "chromium" branch directory to mirror the existing apple one.

-eric