llvm dev - Jul 2015 - [LLVMdev] Recent clang 3.7 RC1 release broke Travis CI integration

Hi,

Until Friday of last week, it was possible to install a package named
"clang-3.7" from the llvm-toolchain-precise repository linked to from
http://llvm.org/apt/. However, at about the same time 3.7 RC1 was
announced, that stopped working. People who use Travis CI for integration
testing frequently depend on being able to retrieve clang this way so that
they can test their applications built with clang 3.7.

What is the currently-recommended way to get an apt package of clang-3.7?

Also, I have a suggestion for the future: It seems that the current LLVM
project policy is to only create a llvm-toolchain-precise-X.Y repository
when version X.Y has been released. Until then, the prerelease versions of
clang are only available from the llvm-toolchain-precise repo. It would be
more convenient for users of Travis CI and similar integration tools if the
llvm-toolchain-precise-X.Y repo was created at the start of the cycle for
version X.Y instead of the end.

In particular, it would be great if the llvm-toolchain-precise-3.8
repository could be created now for the 3.8 prereleases, instead of later
when 3.8 is released.

Cheers,
Brian
-- 
https://briansmith.org/
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This is probably due to trunk getting its version bumped from 3.7 to 3.8.

+sylvestre who maintaines llvm.org/apt.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Brian Smith <brian at briansmith.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Until Friday of last week, it was possible to install a package named
> "clang-3.7" from the llvm-toolchain-precise repository linked to
from
> http://llvm.org/apt/. However, at about the same time 3.7 RC1 was
announced,
> that stopped working. People who use Travis CI for integration testing
> frequently depend on being able to retrieve clang this way so that they can
> test their applications built with clang 3.7.
>
> What is the currently-recommended way to get an apt package of clang-3.7?
>
> Also, I have a suggestion for the future: It seems that the current LLVM
> project policy is to only create a llvm-toolchain-precise-X.Y repository
> when version X.Y has been released. Until then, the prerelease versions of
> clang are only available from the llvm-toolchain-precise repo. It would be
> more convenient for users of Travis CI and similar integration tools if the
> llvm-toolchain-precise-X.Y repo was created at the start of the cycle for
> version X.Y instead of the end.
>
> In particular, it would be great if the llvm-toolchain-precise-3.8
> repository could be created now for the 3.8 prereleases, instead of later
> when 3.8 is released.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
> --
> https://briansmith.org/