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Re: Release numbering
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, phil at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:33:38 -0600
- Subject: Re: Release numbering
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc
- References: <10408301006.AA23682@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <8765706gt0.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 04:50, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Richard Kenner:
>
> > Because the difference between the next release and this one will be *far*
> > less than between 3.4 and this one. If people didn't feel this level of
> > changes merited "4.0", the next level certainly wouldn't.
>
> With the current release plan, I think 3.9 would be a good compromise
> because some RTL passes still remain which hopefully can be removed
> once the infrastructure on the tree level is available. 3.9 shows
> that the release is a significant change from 3.4, and that it's still
> work in progress in some areas (some will argue that a .0 release
> indicates the same thing, of course 8-).
I suggested something similar at the GCC summit -- GCC 3.95 :-)
jeff