[llvm-dev] A Short Policy Proposal Regarding Host Compilers

[Daniel Berlin via llvm-dev]

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 2:38 AM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk
> wrote:

> On 11 May 2018, at 17:54, Daniel Berlin via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > It's also unclear to me it makes sense to try to make sure any user can
> compile the latest version - for example, researchers using it almost never
> keep up with trunk, even with our current policy that supports things for
> longer.  They stick with the version that existed when they started.
>
> This may be true (though we always follow trunk), but it isn’t something
> that we should encourage.


Sure, but this is very orthogonal to this discussion, which is precisely my
point - our host compilation policy, which has allowed trunk compilation
with fairly old compilers for years, has had no visible effect on what
researchers do.

--Dan
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