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 ...


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