[LLVMdev] Getting Started

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

So instead of being able to quickly extend scripting via Bash or C Shell 
you'd prefer people learn Python to extend any functionality?

Cygwin is well tested on Windows. Shell Scripting [Bash, C, Ksh, ZShell, 
etc] is pervasive in UNIX/Linux and won't be replaced by Python or Perl.

Simple automated scripts requiring the memory footprint of python just 
to make it work in Windows seems counter-intuitive to the fact that 
LLVM/Clang is primarily UNIX first.

- Marc

P.S. Please let's not have a discussion of install size of components. 
It's 2012, not 1996. That argument went out the window when we went from 
30GB drives to 4 TB drives.

On 11/29/2012 09:46 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Joe Abbey <jabbey at arxan.com> wrote:
>> I know this process is well documented here
>> http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html
>>
>> But man do I love scripting things:
>>
>> LLVM Getting Started (See http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html)
>> ./getttingStarted.sh [-clang] [-compiler-rt] [-test-suite] [-branch branch]
>>   [-dir path] [-r rev]
>>
> I think this is a good idea, although personally I'd prefer the script
> to be written in Python to allow more portability (i.e. using it on
> Windows as well).
>
> Eli
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