[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] [3.6 Release] RC3 has been tagged

[Jack Howarth]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 18 February 2015 at 19:52, Jack Howarth
> <howarth.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Assuming that the clang-omp
>> developers can find time to rebase their upstream tree on the new 3.6
>> release, I intend to do the same for the fink llvm36 packaging. So
>> yes, a stable compiler does matter to some folks.
>
> So it seems that you're one of the very few people that doesn't use
> ToT. Almost everyone else uses it and the progress of LLVM kind of
> assume you do.
>

I believe MacPorts uses the major llvm releases for their toolchain
these days as the older supported systems don't have access to the
latest Xcode (due to SDK deprecation).

> The past releases didn't mean much until we started doing the
> dot-releases, and even those didn't mean much in the first iterations.
> You can't blame people for not caring that much for something that so
> few people actually use it.

Well, I assumed that llvm releases were supposed to be more than just
glorified semi-annual snapshots.

>
> I think that buildbots make us rely a lot more on inter-release master
> branches than we should. Maybe once more OS distributions start
> relying on LLVM we'll have to match a more professional release cycle,
> but for now, we have very little reason to.
>
> I'm perfectly happy to open a bug for each one of that Phoronix run's
> regressions and fix throughout the next six months...
>
> cheers,
> --renato