Re: Clang/LLVM migration roadmap

2022-02-13 Thread Daniel Boyd
Riccardo, Thanks for the response. I agree there is certainly a distinction between the user types and I, as a developer myself, was referring to #2. However, I disagree that catering to each group is equally important at this juncture for two reasons: 1) GNUstep doesn’t currently have

Re: GCC and Clang

2022-02-13 Thread Gregory Casamento
Riccardo/Po, On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 6:28 PM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Po Lu, > > > On 2022-02-11 02:53:07 + Po Lu wrote: > > > Before dropping GCC support in GNUstep, could you please consult with > > the developers of other GNU software which uses GNUstep? > > > > I put quite some

Re: Clang/LLVM migration roadmap

2022-02-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 2022-02-10 02:31:44 + Gregory Casamento wrote: Riccardo, I don't believe that GNUstep should hold back features to remain compatible with any given compiler. Not implementing features that are widely used (not even particularly "modern" ones) because the less capable

Re: Clang/LLVM migration roadmap

2022-02-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 2022-02-06 10:51:49 + Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: I think general portability is an issue, not just MSYS. MSYS is very sensitive itself - it took 2 years of work to upgrade from the original "msys 1" setup with gcc 3.4 (all newer gcc's had subtle issues!) to a failry

Re: GCC and Clang

2022-02-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Po Lu, On 2022-02-11 02:53:07 + Po Lu wrote: Before dropping GCC support in GNUstep, could you please consult with the developers of other GNU software which uses GNUstep? I put quite some effort into getting the GNUstep port of Emacs into a presentable state, which I would not have

Re: Clang/LLVM migration roadmap

2022-02-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Daniel, I think unvoluntary you made a very important point, I don't know by being aware of it or not. > If you’re looking to recruit more GNUStep users, I just don’t think you > can do that without ARC, @[], @{}, etc. There are plenty of ObjC developers > out there right now who are