Thanks for the reply Micah, are there any performance concerns with the bytecode interpreter? I hear you on cmake, I’m not a big fan of its syntax but it is, at the very least, more static analysis friendly.
> On Dec 8, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) <micas...@cisco.com> > wrote: > > Hi Rafael, > > 1: > Current thoughts here are to drop the repackaged LLVM entirely and to > deprecate support for system-installed LLVM in favor of the bytecode > interpreter. If we put in time to update support for system-installed LLVM, > we'd be better served by aiming at the newest releases. Now that said, > please note that LLVM's major version number started accelerating only in the > last 3 years or so (http://releases.llvm.org/). They have very few minor > releases these days. > > 2: > I am curious about switching from autotools to CMake, though that's a pretty > huge task, and I've probably heard as much or more griping about Cmake as I > have about autotools. I'd like to spend more time weighing pros and cons. > > > > > Micah Snyder > ClamAV Development > Talos > Cisco Systems, Inc. > > > On Dec 8, 2018, at 10:36 AM, Rafael Ferreira > <r...@uvasoftware.com<mailto:r...@uvasoftware.com>> wrote: > > Hi there everyone, two quick questions: > > 1) With 0.100.0 series release (congratulations everyone) and the deprecation > of the repackaged LLVM, are we planning on updating the integration so it > works with more recent LLVM releases? The 3.6 or lower requirement is going > to be increasingly hard to meet when upstream is up to 7.x. > > 2) With regards to build systems, would there be any appetite for a migration > from autotools to CMake? The benefits here would be better tooling > integration (since CLion and Visual Studio supports it natively) and making > the source code more approachable to new developers. Needless to say, this is > not something worth PR’ing if there is no appetite for it. > > Thanks! > > - Rafael > _______________________________________________ > clamav-devel mailing list > clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net<mailto:clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net> > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-devel > > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.clamav.net > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > > _______________________________________________ > clamav-devel mailing list > clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-devel > > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.clamav.net > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-devel mailing list clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-devel Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.clamav.net Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
