[opensuse-packaging] LLVM (for Mono) in 11.3?
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
* 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.
The package is a pre-2.6 SVN snapshot, would it be possible to update this to version 2.7 which was released yesterday? It contains many fixes and vast improvements in C++ support (Clang is now self-hosting). I think Clang may also be of great interest to C/C++ developers. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 00:10 +0200, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
The package is a pre-2.6 SVN snapshot, would it be possible to update this to version 2.7 which was released yesterday? It contains many fixes and vast improvements in C++ support (Clang is now self-hosting). I think Clang may also be of great interest to C/C++ developers.
Mono requires >= 2.6 so yes, 2.7 should be fine for us. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 29 April 2010 11:42:40 pm Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
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.
You can do it as well as duncan - see http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/Packaging#Adding_a_package_to_Factory But as Factory is now frozen, you need to ask coolo first, because he needs decide if it can go or not. Regards Michal Vyskocil
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
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Andrew Jorgensen -
Cristian Morales Vega -
Guido Berhoerster -
Michal Vyskocil