[llvm-dev] State of llgo in monorepo?

[Peter Collingbourne via llvm-dev]

Sure, that's fine with me.

Peter

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:57 AM Eric Christopher via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

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 * It only supports a long outdated Go version (1.5 while latest is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