[LLVMdev] RFC/Heads Up: Deprecating External Build Support

[Chris Lattner]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

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> On Oct 11, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I would like to deprecate the LLVM project's "official" support of
>> setting up the Makefiles / autoconf configurations in such a way that
>> external projects are encouraged to leverage them in their own build.
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> +1.  Please make sure Projects.html is updated, and please add a note to the 3.0 release notes.

To be clear, I support saying that these are deprecated (and will be removed in 3.1) in the 3.0 release notes, but we shouldn't rip it out of mainline until after the branch.

-Chris