From: Weddington, E. <Eri...@at...> - 2013-06-10 18:13:57
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Stepan Dyatkovskiy [mailto:stp...@na...] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 12:03 PM > To: John Myers; Borja Ferrer; avr-llvm > Subject: [avr-llvm-devel] May be join to LLVM? > > Guys, > > I propose to make your back-end stable and join to LLVM project then. > Yes, just add your back-end to LLVM. There are few advantages: > 1. You won't synchronize it anymore. If somebody will brake AVR > backend, > then, according to LLVM policy: it *his* blame, and he will fix it, not > you and me. You will get some kind of protection. > 2. Being in main llvm repo, AVR backend will attract more developers > and > testers, more people that may be interested in your code. > 3. You lose nothing in that case. Benefits only. > 4. You will still code owners, of course. > > What do you think? > Well the thought was crossing my mind this morning... The only reason to have a separate project was to develop the AVR backend sufficiently enough that it worked. The intent, if I recall, was always to merge with LLVM at some point (to be determined). Are we at that point now that it will benefit us to merge with LLVM? Eric |