[Bug 1109390] Review Request: llvm3.3 - Versioned LLVM

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109390



--- Comment #5 from Christopher Meng <i@xxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Milan Bouchet-Valat from comment #3)
> (In reply to Christopher Meng from comment #1)
> > Per your strategy, will there come llvm3.4, llvm3.5 in the future? Because
> > LLVM API is never stable.
> Well, it really depends on how Fedora's and Julia's schedules interact in
> the future.

It depends on Julia itself, actually.

> But OTOH when backporting a new LLVM version to a published Fedora
> release, it's likely that Julia will break as there will likely be some lag
> between LLVM's and Julia's releases. 

I don't think you need to update julia for each Fedora release, we need to keep
something stable.

> With an unstable API like LLVM's,
> versioned parallel-installable packages are kind of inevitable.

Still not a good reason. If something can't be considered stable, you'd better
package it in copr first.

> (In reply to Jens Petersen from comment #2)
> > Does Julia upstream have any plans to move to llvm-3.4 btw?
> Yes, the next version will use LLVM 3.5. (Support for 3.4 is almost present
> already, but there are a few bugs and it has not been tested thoroughly
> enough that the developers feel confident to use it now.)

Oh, so llvm3.5 will appear in review queue again? What about 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
etc.?

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