Outdated rpm packages for llvm/clang are still the part of F15

[OlegL]

Fedora is supposedly a cutting edge distro, which means it is supposed to allow people to install recently released software. If it's true, then why llvm/clang 2.9 are still not included in F15? F15 only includes llvm/clang 2.8.

[leigh123linux]

Moved to F15 Rants - Talking To The Wind (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=81)

[marko]

llvm 2.9 only came out April 6, the Fedora people need some time for testing

[OlegL]

But think about gnome-3.0.1. It came out very recently, yet it's already a part of fedora.

[AndrewSerk]

But think about gnome-3.0.1. It came out very recently, yet it's already a part of fedora.

The shell that gnome 3 is based on was tested by fedora users(me included) over a year ago.
PS> it was fun to use the shell when you could switch back to gnome 2.xx. ;)

[marko]

But think about gnome-3.0.1. It came out very recently, yet it's already a part of fedora.

llvm for all its coolness is mostly just another compiler. Gnome 3 on the other hand is a whole different desktop and gives new capability that gnome 2 doesn't have. So there's more interest in getting Gnome 3 into Fedora 15 than the very latest version of llvm.

Basically there's not much that llvm 2.9 can do that you can't do just fine with llvm 2.8, but Gnome 3 is very different from Gnome 2.x

[RahulSundaram]

But think about gnome-3.0.1. It came out very recently, yet it's already a part of fedora.

3.0.1 is a bug fix release. A new major version of LLVM is a system component change and requires testing and has compatibility differences. Not quite the same thing. Fedora follows the update policy at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy