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Re: Mention gcc 4.1 in News/Announcements
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 18:10, Diego Novillo wrote:
>
> Yes, they're collectively pretty clueless. However, in the midst of
> that /. interchange I did see one posting that made a relatively good
> point: If you go to gcc.gnu.org, you will see "Current release series:
> GCC 4.1.0".
>
> For the uninformed, that may be construed as "GCC 4.1.0 has been released".
> That may have tripped the original /. poster into thinking that. No, I'm
> not defending them.
Or misconstrued as "Current releases are from the 4.1 series". I tripped over
that, only realising my mistake when the expected tarball was no where to be
seen on the ftp server...
So I can only agree that the wording is a little ambiguous.
Andrew Walrond