LLVM 4.0.1 Planning, Aiming For Better Stable Releases

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM 4.0.1 Planning, Aiming For Better Stable Releases

Tom Stellard, who recently left AMD for Red Hat, is stepping up once again to maintain LLVM point releases. Tom has laid out plans for LLVM 4.0.1 and he's also looking to enhance the overall stable release process...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-4.0.1-Planning

[tildearrow]

Typo:

issing up to six point releases each calendar year,

[FireBurn]

Now that the numbering has changed to increment the major number every 6 months put it be better to use the minor number for point releases rather than patch number

[wizard69]

It is interesting that he went to Redhat. It makes me wonder if Redhat will move to LLVM/CLANG in its distros. There are certainly some interesting positives with respect to LLVM/CLang that Redhat might leverage.