[swift-dev] Why are we re-linking?

[Jordan Rose]

> On May 6, 2016, at 09:23, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:
>> Hm. That might be a nice balance, and it’s not entirely a lie: that’s the
>> version of the compiler that you’re using, if not the stdlib and runtime.
>> I’d still like to put it behind a flag, so that we can turn it off it
>> certain configurations, like #2105 attempted to do.
>> 
>> Dmitri, any comments, since you caught the issue last time?
> 
> I think this would be a reasonable balance for local development.  For
> releases that CI produces I think this change will cause confusion
> because the git hashes that are tagged would not match the git hashes
> included in the compiler version.

Oh, agreed. I think we wouldn’t have an issue there because none of those are incremental, but we could disable this for all buildbots if we wanted to be conservative.

Jordan