On 08/09/2013 11:12 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:50:24 +0300 > Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So users will have gnome working but not any other component? How can >> this a good service for users? > > Just like we can't ensure that everything builds with LLVM doesn't mean > we shouldn't support packages that only build with GCC, neither does it > mean we can't support packages that only build with LLVM; we do our > best to aim them to build with both as a means of good service to our > users, but if it doesn't build for one of the other there's not much we > can do about that other than trying to fix. The same applies to build > systems, documentation generation, the compression used and so on.... > > If we didn't support alternatives, we would only have stuff in the tree > that solely supports GCC, plain Makefiles and so on; and anything that > only works with LLVM, CMake and so on would never be a part.
Using llvm doesn't imply removing gcc ...
