[llvm-dev] State of llgo in monorepo?

[Eric Christopher via llvm-dev]

Done thusly:

echristo at athyra ~/r/llvm-project> git push
To github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git
   936d1427da1..372bfc65deb  master -> master

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:02 AM Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>
wrote:

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 * It only supports a long outdated Go version (1.5 while latest is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