On 01/12/16 12:06, David Chisnall wrote: > 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. It might not be true today. But at some point, Apple will see fit to not give back a feature. A feature that people will depend on.
We've all seen this happen *many* times. And we'll see it again. And some people will act surprised. -Steven _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
