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Re: Release numbering
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:29:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: Release numbering
- References: <10408300112.AA22774@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:12:44PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Despite Mark just saying that "The tree-ssa changes are a huge perturbation",
> he doesn't feel it's large enough to justify a move to 4.0 due to not having
> enough user-visible changes. A large number of other people on this list
> agree with that view.
It's more than that. We're still often slower, we're still often buggier,
we're still cleaning up from the results of (a very successful) merge.
It's not always better than 3.0.
Let me put it like this: there are people who feel that /no/ change to the
major version will ever be appropriate. Many of us feel that it /would/
be appropriate if we reached a few more prerequisites. Once they're
reached, we agree with that 4.0 would be appropriate, and eventually --
not too far off -- there will be a large majority consensus for 4.0.
Trying to get the SC to hand down a 4.0 decision now will cause tension,
fights, disagreement, plagues, etc. Why not work together to create a
release that we can agree is worthy of the name 4.0? Why does it have to
be forced through now?
--
Behind everything some further thing is found, forever; thus the tree behind
the bird, stone beneath soil, the sun behind Urth. Behind our efforts, let
there be found our efforts.
- Ascian saying, as related by Loyal to the Group of Seventeen