[llvm-dev] State of llgo in monorepo?

[Eric Christopher via llvm-dev]

OK. I'll get it.

-eric

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:58 AM Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:

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 * It only supports a long outdated Go version (1.5 while latest is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