2010/4/29 Andrew Jorgensen
Hello, The Mono team would like to have LLVM available in 11.3. We will be using LLVM in upcoming versions of mono and having it in 11.3 would make development easier for us and our many outside contributors. I am told that Duncan (dmacvicar) has packages of LLVM 2.6 ready and they just need to be imported to Factory. Unfortunately he's on leave until July (or October depending on which standard he was using when he wrote 10.07.2010). Can I get someone on the SUSE side of the pond to take ownership of this? I'm willing to take part in basic package maintenance.
I don't have anything against having LLVM in the main distro. But adding it after freeze to develop future Mono versions really makes sense? I mean: - The Mono version that will use LLVM will never be available in 11.3 (in the main repo) since Mono itself will not be updated. And there is no other official package that will use it. - For development purposes you don't need the security team using resources in checking LLVM. - For development purposes there is no problem with using a version from the Build Service. In fact for Mono development you will probably want the latest LLVM version... if in six months LLVM 2.8 is released will Mono devs continue using LLVM 2.7 from the official repo or will you switch to LLVM 2.8 from the Build Service anyway? If it's expected that the Mono version that will be included in 11.4/12.0 will use LLVM add it to Factory after the openSUSE 11.3 release. During the 11.4/12.0 development time Mono devs can use LLVM backported from its development project repo. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org