[llvm-dev] Flang landing in the monorepo - next Monday!

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 06:50, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't really consider this addressed without a plan of action (before merge) that contains a list of standard llvm support libraries that would be used in addition to things being removed (pretty much all use of C++ c* headers and more?) as well as staffing and approximate ETAs.

Agreed.

> I think waiting until after the llvm 10 branch would probably be best at this point. That will give a lot of time for cleanup and to make f18 a much more reasonable "preview" including code generation in a forthcoming release in about 6 mos.

Before this thread, I thought the progress of F18 was much further
than it is. My initial comments assumed it.

Now, I am surprised it's not using LLVM API yet (a clear and
consistent complaint of the previous one), as well as having its own
driver, test infra, etc.

The lack of C++ compatibility may look small now, but once we want to
move to a newer standard, Flang will be the bottleneck. In a monorepo,
these things are even more important.

F18 was supposed to be a whole new front-end, from scratch, but it
looks to have carried along many of the previous projects' flaws.

I really wouldn't like to see the next release with such wide range of
incompatibilities.

So, +1 to both waiting the release branch as well as a concrete plan
with a deadline to address all the critical issues before the next
release.

cheers,
--renato