On Aug 24, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> You know, I could be a total jerk and say:
> 
> "If you push gcc out to a port, and you have the 'external compiler'
> toolchain support working correctly enough to build with this, why don't we
> just push clang out to a port, and be done with it?"
> 
> ... just saying.
> 
> +1
> 
> GREAT idea!!! that is a better plan for 11.x 

This is a stupid idea. It kills the tightly integrated nature of FreeBSD. I'd 
say it is far too radical a departure and opens up a huge can of "which version 
of what compiler" nightmare that we've largely dodged to date because we had 
one (or maybe two) compilers in the base system.

Warner


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