From 961d86cd2155b915d1540988f9bae755b8d168e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Pankevich Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 22:11:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README: Simplify background --- README.md | 13 +++---------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3d17c65..9f65b26 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,21 +8,14 @@ Attempt to reimplement LLVM's FileCheck using Python. ## Background -We know at least two software projects that would benefit from a suite of -LLVM LIT integration tests: - -1. [Mull](https://github.com/mull-project/mull) - -2. [Doorstop](https://github.com/doorstop-dev/doorstop/pull/431) - +Many software projects could benefit from a suite of LLVM LIT integration tests. The problem is that you have to build `FileCheck` from LLVM sources which is not a trivial task for 1) people who are not familiar with the LLVM infrastructure and 2) Python-based projects that would prefer to not have -to build anything from LLVM sources in their CI process. +to build anything from LLVM's source code in their CI process. The option of having pre-compiled binaries is a workaround, but we don't like to -keep third-party binary artifacts in source code, -(see https://github.com/doorstop-dev/doorstop/pull/431#issuecomment-549237579). +keep third-party binary artifacts in source code. ## Documentation