[llvm-dev] Is the CppBackend still supported?

David Blaikie via llvm-dev
Wed, 04 May 2016 15:21:06 -0000

+1

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Filipe Cabecinhas via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Ronan KERYELL via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, 3 May 2016 16:36:01 -0400, Rafael
Espíndola via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> said:
> >
> >     Rafael> Care to send a patch deleting it? :-)
> >
> > On the other hand these requests come back from time to time on the
> > mailing list and it is still used in many attics of various projects
as
> > a de-facto internal representation to interface with other tools for
> > technical/marketing/political/... reasons.
> Doesn't seem like it is, if it seems to be broken since some 2013
changes.
> It might be in use for projects using older llvm releases, of course.
> But those haven't updated their llvm library for a long time, so this
> wouldn't be their major problem.
>
> > So sending a patch to resurrect it in a more modern new life might be
> > also considered instead of many people crafting some half-working
> > ashamed kludges far from the sight... :-)
> Not really. There's no reason to spend the effort just because "in
the
> future someone might use it".
> If you're saying "I have some half-working things and CppBackend
would
> be awesome for me", then I guess no one would object to you working on
> it, and people would actually help if you needed advice/patch review,
> etc.
>
> But if we have no one actively interested, and there has been no
> active development to the point where it's plain broken since a long
> time ago, then we probably want to start proposing its deletion.
> There's no point in having people who aren't interested in
maintaining
> it do all this work if the backend can be so out of date and no one
> notices.
> If it's not usable now and almost no one complains about it being
> broken (outside the occasional "Is this working? No.", will those
> people notice if it's gone? :-)
>
> Thank you,
>
>   Filipe
>
> > --
> >   Ronan KERYELL
> >   Xilinx Research Labs, Dublin, Ireland
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