[llvm-dev] Announce - chocolatey packages available for LLVM on Windows

[Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev]

Cool, I've heard of Chocolatey, but never actually used it. Anything that
makes it easier to use Clang on Windows sounds great to me. Thanks! :)

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Peter Mounce via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi there
>
> Myself and a colleague, David Bimmler, have created chocolatey packages
> for LLVM versions 3.8.0-3.9.1 inclusive. We did this because we wanted to
> make it easier to install onto our build infrastructure.
>
> You can see the packages via https://chocolatey.org/packages/clang and
> the source code for the packages at https://github.com/bimmlerd/
> clang-choco.
>
> Chocolatey's moderation process involves a human in the loop, and so can
> take a few days. While the packages are pending review, you can install
> them by qualifying the version, like `choco install clang --version 3.9.1`,
> instead of just `choco install clang`.
>
> Information about chocolatey - https://chocolatey.org/about
> How to install chocolatey - https://chocolatey.org/install
>
> Hopefully this is a welcome contribution. We'd be happy for it to be
> pulled into core if you'd like. AFAIK the package would need a Windows
> machine with powershell to be built on within your release automation. We'd
> also need to extend the automation in our repo to support publishing RCs (I
> notice 4.0.0-rc3 has just dropped).
>
> Best regards
> Pete
>
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