Alexey,

Alexey Pavlov <[email protected]> writes:

> Long time ago we add possibility to build Clang into mingw-builds scripts.
> Now we want to provide Clang builds for mingw-w64 toolchains.
>
> There are two possibilities that we can do:
> *1. *Include clang builds into toolchain archive

Please don't. Clang is experimental as a Windows C compiler and useless
as a Windows C++ compiler. It has its uses, but it is no match for
gcc/g++ yet. If you include it into the stable toolchain archive,
uninformed people will waste their time trying it to end being
frustrated and disparaging MinGW-W64.

> *2.* Provide separate builds of GCC+Clang
>
> I have a question to users what use our toolchains.
> I want you to vote for the best variant of doing that.
>
> I know that some users don't want to have bigger toolchains but I think
> that in modern time it is not a problem because all drives has big volume.

There are still parts of the world with slow and/or limited Internet
connections and people using old computers.

Personally, I'm more concerned about potential clashes with the Clang
binaries that I build. As Clang is experimental and fast-evolving on
Windows, it makes sense to build it quite frequently from SVN and a
"stable" distribution becomes obsolete quite fast (the standard response
for bug reports against Clang releases on the Clang/LLVM channels is
"use the SVN sources".)


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