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Re: GCC version bikeshedding
- From: Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at embecosm dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:26:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC version bikeshedding
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On 29 July 2014 18:14, Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> On July 29, 2014 6:45:13 PM CEST, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> wrote:
>>> I think that if anybody has strong objections, now is the time to
>>make
>>> them. Otherwise I think we should go with this plan.
>>
>>IMHO the cure is worse than the disease.
>>
>>> Given that there is no clear reason to ever change the major version
>>> number, making that change will not convey any useful information to
>>> our users. So let's just drop the major version number. Once we've
>>> made that decision, then the next release (in 2015) naturally becomes
>>> 5.0, the release after that (in 2016) becomes 6.0, etc.
>>
>>I don't really understand the "naturally": if you drop the major
>>version
>>number, the next release should be 10.0, not 5.0.
>
> 10.0 would be even better from a marketing perspective.
So if we want version number inflation with plausible deniability, how
about we first increment the miner version number - so we get 4.10.0,
and then we concatenate major and minor version number, yielding
410.0