Re: GCC and Clang

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 11 Feb 2022, at 02:53, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> The way I see it, we have two ways we can go. In each, I have outlined
>> what I believe needs to be done.  It may or may not be complete:
>> 
>> LLVM/Clang:
>> 1) Improve libobjc2 such that it can 
>>   a) function properly on a wider set of platforms.   This means 
>>      i) Correct build issues it has in on some environments. 
>>      ii) Simplifying the build of it on Windows 
>>           (i.e., don't require Visual Studio :))
> 
> Before dropping GCC support in GNUstep, 

As I understand it, the discussion is about the possibility of switching from 
GCC to Clang as the preferred compiler for new development.

That's a *very* different thing from what the phrase 'dropping GCC support' 
suggests.

There is no suggestion of rewriting all GNUstep code to require Clang; that 
would be silly.