[llvm-dev] LLVM/Clang/Compiler-RT tarballs version 7.0.0rc2

Mon Aug 27 02:09:06 PDT 2018

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo at hahnjo.de> wrote:
> On 2018-08-27 09:44, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, I see.
>> You have an unusual development process seen from my POV.
>
>
> GNOME does the same, to pick one example:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentynine
> Tarballs are due on Monday, official release and announcement are on
> Wednesday.
>
>> IMHO you can provide the tarballs before the "binaries" are uploaded
>> which means "prebuilt binaries".
>> That could increase the quality of developing when different arch/os
>> maintainers give their OK.
>
>
> We had that discussion, please see older threads: It's just that there is
> some internal testing before uploading the tarballs for "public" testing.
> For rc1 tagging was on August 3rd, upload of the tarballs on August 7th.

Technically speaking, we could publish the source tarballs straight
away after tagging, it's just that it's easier for me to publish the
sources, binaries and docs in one go. I'll think about changing my
process.

>> But for 7.0.0rc1 I see only prebuilt binaries for...
>>
>> * macOS
>> * FreeBSD10 AMD64
>> * Windows (32-bit)
>> * Windows (64-bit)
>
>
> clang+llvm-7.0.0-rc1-x86_64-linux-sles12.3.tar.xz is missing, probably an
> oversight. [ CC Hans ]

It wasn't uploaded to the server. I've pinged Brian to see what happened.

>
>> So giving an OK on different platforms than above listen ones is done via
>> email?
>> I mean without providing prebuilt binaries?
>
>
> Yes, there are some downstream projects and distributions reporting test
> results and possibly uploading the binaries to different infrastructures.
> For example packages for Debian and Ubuntu live at http://apt.llvm.org/.
>
> Jonas
>
>
>> - Sedat -
>>
>>
>> [1] http://prereleases.llvm.org/7.0.0/#rc1
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo at hahnjo.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> The answer is the same as two years ago: The tarballs are made available
>>> once ready. The release manager will usually send another email saying
>>> so,
>>> the last one said "[7.0.0 Release] rc1 has been tagged" (not
>>> "available").
>>>
>>> For reference here are links to older discussions:
>>>  - 3.9.1rc2:
>>> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-December/107777.html
>>>  - 3.8.1: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-June/101562.html
>>>  - 3.8(.0)rc2:
>>> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-February/094935.html
>>>  - 3.7.1:
>>> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-January/093603.html
>>>
>>> Jonas
>>>
>>> P.S.: I'm sorry if that sounds a bit harsh. But it's really frustrating
>>> to
>>> answer the same question again and again - especially to the very same
>>> person.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2018-08-27 08:58, Sedat Dilek via llvm-dev wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have seen you tagged 7.0.0rc2 in SVN, but [1] has no tarballs for
>>>> downloading?
>>>> Can you please provide them?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> - Sedat -
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://prereleases.llvm.org/7.0.0/#rc2
>>>> [2]
>>>>
>>>> https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-branch-commits/2018-August/date.html
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