[llvm-dev] State of llgo in monorepo?

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

Yep - delete it. If someone wants it back they can resurrect it from
version control & explain why it's worth adding back in.

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:17 AM Jonas Devlieghere via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Thanks for bringing this up! Strong +1 from me for all the  reasons
> you've mentioned.
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 8:42 AM Raphael Isemann via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > the monorepo contains a Go frontend called 'llgo' (in the llgo/ top
> > level folder). It apparently hasn't been active since 2017 and before
> > that it wasn't very active either (there were 13 commits in 2016
> > apparently, most of it minor fixes).
> >
> > I would propose that we remove it from the monorepo for the following
> reasons:
> >
> > * It is apparently unmaintained.
> > * It only supports a long outdated Go version (1.5 while latest is 1.13
> or so).
> > * It doesn't build (at least on my machine) due to runtime errors (the
> > build log is really unhelpful in telling me what actually went wrong).
> > In general the build system is kinda flawed as it seems to just
> > manually run 'make' as a single custom build step (even with a -GNinja
> > build).
> > * It contains a full copy of Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom
> > Sawyer". It gets really tiring to blacklist this file on my desktop
> > search engine as it otherwise constantly comes up in unrelated
> > searches for words that are by accident in this novel.
> > * The sources of multiple third party libraries are copied into its
> > third party directory. It would be nice not to have random code in the
> > LLVM repo under a different license than LLVM.
> > * It's the only reason why we maintain some Go support in LLVM's CMake
> > (like llvm_add_go_executable ).
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > - Raphael
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