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Re: GCC Release Delay
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com
- Subject: Re: GCC Release Delay
- From: Toon Moene <moene at knmi dot nl>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:55:56 +0000
- CC: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
[ Yep, I detected it this morning (i.e. 20010618) - too late ]
Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> This was semi-intentional. I have no idea how the libf2c version
>> numbers track our releases. (The library could well be
>> experimental, even if the compiler is not.) I didn't know that
>> Fortran had its own version file; the fix is to remove it, and
>> share the gcc/version.c file.
> Fortran has its own version number (0.5.xx) which is presumably
> why it has its own version.c file. Whether, now it is part of
> GCC, it needs its own version number, is another matter.
The reason to keep the version number for the Frontend is that we
promised all sorts of goodies for 0.6. 0.5.x indicates that we don't
yet offer those features.
Note that the library is no more "experimental" than the Fortran
Frontend, so it should have been named "release" as well.
However, the fact that something is "experimental", "prerelease" or
"release" should be dealt with in one, single, version file.
I'm sorry I didn't realise that Mark wouldn't change this
"automatically" - for the 2.95.3 release I sent Bernd a separate patch
to this effect.
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