Re: [avr-llvm-devel] May be join to LLVM?

[Weddington, E. <Eri...@at...>]

> -----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