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

[Daniel Dunbar]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.

Right, that was my plan and the impetus for current timing.

 - Daniel

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> -Chris
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