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Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0

From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham at dina dot kvl dot dk>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:08:41 +0200
Subject: Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
Organization: The Church of Emacs
References: <20040601080350.GA12296@disaster.jaj.com> <200406011338.02249.stevenb@suse.de><20040602190903.GA29825@disaster.jaj.com>

Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:

> I'm not arguing for /never/ having a 4.0 release (although others do take
> that position, and it's a reasonable one).  

If we never have a 4.0 release, then the major version number is
redundant, and can be optimized away for space.  The next version will
then be GCC 5 (short for GCC 3.5).  5.x will be bug-fix only releases,
and the next release with new features will be 6.

It would not be a first for a GNU project, the current version of GNU
Emacs is actually "1.21.3", but since the major version never changed,
RMS stopped writing it years ago.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
  - From: Andrew Pinski
- Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
  - From: Geoff Keating
- Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
  - From: Theodore Papadopoulo

References:
- Criteria for GCC 4.0
  - From: Phil Edwards
- Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
  - From: Steven Bosscher
- Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
  - From: Phil Edwards

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