Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 20:12 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Yes, the Mesa 3D project uses LLVM to dynamically generate machine code.
>     As I understand it, one of the driving factors in the technology choice
>     here was that the compiler is structured as a set of libraries with an
>     API - in contrast to how GCC was historically.
> 
>     So in GNOME, we depend on both compilers now.
> 
> This design decision suggests that GNOME developers are focusing
> solely on their specific goals, and not taking account the advance and
> success of the GNU system as a whole.

The intersection of people contributing to both Mesa and GNOME is pretty
small.  That's something I'd like to change, but it is the basic fact
today.

I don't see the LLVM dependency as any kind of "realignment" away from
GNU or anything of the sort - as far as I'm concerned from a release
management perspective, GCC will remain the default system compiler.