[llvm-dev] State of llgo in monorepo?

[Eric Christopher via llvm-dev]

Calling pcc real fast :)

-eric

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:49 AM David Blaikie via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> 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 * It only supports a long outdated Go version (1.5 while latest is 1.13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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