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Re: Release numbering
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner),phil at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:22:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: Release numbering
- Organization: SUSE Labs
- References: <10408301006.AA23682@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Monday 30 August 2004 12:06, Richard Kenner wrote:
> 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?
>
> Because the difference between the next release and this one will be *far*
> less than between 3.4 and this one. If people didn't feel this level of
> changes merited "4.0", the next level certainly wouldn't.
That seems to be the case, yes.
The arguments to not go to 4.0 now could be re-used for every
next GCC 3.(5+x), and we'd be stuck on GCC 3.4 until we do some
really radical stuff again (tossing out RTL or something).
That appears to be exactly what some people want to happen :-(
Gr.
Steven