From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:46:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mw4rxkzv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423320436 31734 80.91.229.3 (7 Feb 2015 14:47:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 14:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 07 15:47:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YK6fA-0004C7-TG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 15:47:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YK6fA-0006uU-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51763) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YK6f6-0006uL-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:47:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YK6f2-0005ok-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:47:08 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:42406) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YK6f2-0005lp-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:47:04 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t17EkxgM015497; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:46:59 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7AB32FAA; Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:46:59 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Helmut Eller's message of "Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:46:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5210=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5210> : inlines <2048> : streams <1386297> : uri <1849044> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182606 Archived-At: > I wonder if there is enough room for more than one competitor. Of course there is. > If evolutionary principles apply to software, then GCC might indeed be > in danger, because currently it does look like LLVM is more "fit", > produces (much) more "offspring" and generally takes resources away > from GCC. Such is life, and there are good technical reasons for that. Avoiding LLVM support in Emacs won't make any difference in this respect, other than push Emacs users away. Stefan