On 07/07/2014 16:44, Viral Shah wrote: > On 07-Jul-2014, at 1:02 am, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> wrote: > >> On 07/07/2014 09:10, Viral Shah wrote: >>> Julia support for LLVM 3.4 is only experimental and we will probably go >>> directly to 3.5. >> Do you have an eta on Julia-on-llvm-3.5 ? LLVM 3.5 branching is probably >> going to happen this week. > > We are currently in our julia 0.3 release cycle, and just about to release > 0.3-rc1. We already have support llvm-3.5 svn, but the julia release that > will use llvm 3.5 will be 0.4 is expected in December. The Debian freeze in planed in November. That is going to be too late.
> LLVM 3.4 changed the APIs (MCJIT and such) and also had a bunch of bugs that > made it difficult for us to use it. In fact we even have to apply patches to > LLVM 3.3 (but can work around those bugs with slightly worse code generation > in some cases, so that stock LLVM 3.3 can be used). Most of our patches are > in 3.5, and we should be able to move to it for our next release. If you can provide patches separately from the 0.3 release, I guess that would make Sébastien happy. >>> Is it an option to include 3.3 in the Julia package in that case? >>> >> No. It had a maintenance burden on Debian that we don't want. > > I really wish we can find a way. Me too but 3.3 is already more than an year old. It is unmaintained (unlike 3.4 which has point releases) and 3.5 will be part of Debian Jessie. I cannot afford to maintain 4 versions of LLVM in parallel (3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and snapshot). Sylvestre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
