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Re: GCC version bikeshedding
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:01:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: GCC version bikeshedding
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- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 05:59:08PM +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
> >So, what versioning scheme have we actually agreed on, before I change
> >it in
> >wwwdocs? Is that
> >5.0.0 in ~ April 2015, 5.0.1 in ~ June-July 2015 and 5.1.0 in ~ April
> >2016,
> >or
> >5.0 in ~ April 2015, 5.1 in ~ June-July 2015 and 6.0 in ~ April 2016?
> >The only thing I understood was that we don't want 4.10, but for the
> >rest
> >various people expressed different preferences and then it was
> >presented as
> >agreement on 5.0, which applies to both of the above.
> >
> >It is not a big deal either way of course.
>
> I understood we agreed on 5.0 and further 5.1, 5.2 releases from the
> branch and 6.0 a year later. With unspecified uses for the patch level
> number (so leave it at zero).
Ian/Jason, is that your understanding too? In any case, we should mention
it on gcc.gnu.org/index.html, in develop.html and perhaps a few other spots.
Jakub