[Development] Qt Creatror can require a patched Clang build?

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezmeyer at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 13:41:24 CEST 2019


On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 18:20, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, 9 September 2019 14:07:59 PDT Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> wrote:
> > Is this acceptable? I really think it is not, but...
>
> It's not. Requiring people to build LLVM + Clang, whcih is huge, is not
> something we should do.
>
> Please work around.

In the meantime I propose this:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt-creator/qt-creator/+/273375
In this way our users will know that the plugin needs a specific patch
in clang. But better if we didn't. Or at very least the plugin wasn't
build at all, with a proper warning at build time.



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