Re: LLVM

[David Chisnall]

On 29 Feb 2008, at 16:39, hns@computer.org wrote:

> IMHO, changing GNUstep in any way to require LLVM is generally not a
> good move. It makes life even more difficult to have GNUstep included
> in any Linux distribution because we can't influcence them to provide
> a LLVM ObjC compiler. Or we have to maintain our own compilers.

To clarify:

I am categorically not advocating changing GNUstep to require LLVM.  I  
am advocating (and implementing) changing LLVM to be able to compile  
GNUstep.  I am also advocating (and plan on implementing) support in  
LLVM for compiling Objective-C (and later Io and Smalltalk) running  
atop my runtime.  At which point, I will also contribute changes to  
GNUstep to allow it to run atop my runtime (as it already does on the  
GNU runtime and sometimes does on the NeXT/Apple runtime).

For reference, LLVM is already available in the repositories for  
FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo and binary packages are available for  
RedHat Enterprise Linux, Windows and OS X as well.

David