Re: Looking into LLVM

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

On 10/26/2009 08:21 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:

> 
> Which affects who?  koji certainly seems to be keeping up with the load.
> 
> What I'm trying to pry out of you is what you'd be hoping to accomplish
> by using it.  The answer so far seems to be "I'd spend less time
> building things, at the cost of some unknown amount of time invested in
> fixing everything to build again".  That doesn't sound like progress.

Certainly status quo is easier.  Less time building things is a obvious
benefit. We don't know the cost unless we try. Doing a scratch build
similar to the FTFBS rebuilds is definitely worth trying IMO. Arguing
that we should never try at all doesn't seem appealing to me.

Rahul