> Am 05.02.2022 um 23:53 schrieb Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com>:
>
> We just had the quarterly meeting, and we discussed this. GNUstep is already
> using LLVM/clang, as you likely know. The issue is that libobjc2 does not
> function on as wide a variety of platforms as GCC and libobjc. We have,
> thus, been forced to compromise to support a wider audience. The issue is
> that this includes many corporate interests that require this support. To
> suddenly deprecate it would be damaging to the project. During the meeting,
> we all agreed that coming up with a roadmap to move us further towards using
> ARC and other features of LLVM/clang would be a good thing, but this must
> happen over time. I will start an email thread that discusses this shortly.
I understand that this switch is not going to happen tomorrow (or in the next
few months), but I was obviously lacking a clear view of this project moving
into this direction at all.
So, thanks for getting the ball rolling now.
Wolfgang
