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Re: GCC 4.0 vs. 3.5 -- don't decide now!
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: neroden at twcny dot rr dot com (Nathanael Nerode)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:31:59 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.0 vs. 3.5 -- don't decide now!
- References: <20040417134411.GA10920@twcny.rr.com>
I have no quibble with everything you said except this:
> However, "3.5" is a fairly decent version number from a "big change"
> perspective; it's halfway to 4.0.
Don't perpetuate this pernicious error. Version numbers are not
decimal fractions. They are 3-tuples of nonnegative integers,
expressed in a convenient shorthand. There is no special meaning to a
.5 or a .90 or even a .99 release.
Would you say that (3 5 0) was halfway to (4 0 0) ?
zw