On 1 Dec 2016, at 07:43, Steven R. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to add an additional concern. I know that LLVM and clang are the > new hotness, but they're de facto owned by Apple now. It won't be long before > there are new and hot features that are in Apple's own version of LLVM, and > it'll be very desirable to depend on these new and hot features.
This is simply not true. Apple’s contributions, as a percentage of the total, have been decreasing for the last five years. It’s been several years since they were responsible for over 50% of total development and they’re not even the largest single contributor anymore (Google is). Apple’s release process for LLVM is to fork at a point from svn head, run a bunch of additional tests, and backport any fixes from a specific branch. This code then appears on opensource.apple.com - occasionally it includes a few hacky fixes for issues on Darwin that they haven’t upstreamed because upstream won’t accept it until they tidy it up and do it properly. David _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
