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Re: GCC 3.3 Prerelease

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:53:18AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 10:32, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > >   ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/gcc-*-3.3-20030506.tar.gz
> > 
> > Some people have asked that the version string be 3.3.0 instead of
> > 3.3.  I never saw any objections to this, and I'd like to see it too.
> 
> I don't object either, but AFAIK, ".0" is not the usual GNU way.
> 
> We'd need a patch for GCC, and approval from the FSF.  We might do this
> for 3.4[.0] -- but 3.3 will be 3.3.

I don't think that we need approval from the FSF on something as trivial
as that; the SC could decide it.

I agree that it is too late to change 3.3 after a prerelease tarball has
already gone out.
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