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

[Renato Golin]

On 19 February 2015 at 19:58, Tom Honermann <thonermann at coverity.com> wrote:
> The effort isn't always so small for us however.  It has generally taken us
> about a month to upgrade and vet a new Clang release.  The Clang release
> cadence is faster than ours, so timing isn't always great (not a complaint,
> just a reality).

That's why most developers keep in sync with ToT. It hurts a lot less
than yearly migrations, even if you only release your software once a
year. And you can still rely on release tests as a point-in-time of
stability.


> Before we upgrade again, we also have to port our internal
> code and build systems to C++11 since Clang now requires that (again, not a
> complaint, I'm glad to see Clang using new language features!)

Yeah, the C++11 will sting a bit.

cheers,
--renato