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Re: future versions
- From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf dot de>
- To: Jack Howarth <howarth dot at dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:27:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: future versions
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On 2015.03.21 at 12:11 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
> <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> > On 2015.03.20 at 20:08 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >> What was the final decision concerning future versioning of FSF
> >> gcc post-5.0? In particular, I am confused about the designation of
> >> maintenance releases of 5.0. Will the next maintenance release be 5.1
> >> or 5.0.1? I assume if it is 5.1, then after branching for release of
> >> 5.0, trunk will become 6.0, no?
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#num_scheme
>
> So according to that webpage, trunk becomes 6.0 and the first
> maintenance release of 5.0 becomes 5.1 (with 5.0.1 being the
> pre-release state of the gcc-5_0-branch prior to the actual 5.1
> maintenance release). What is confusing me is all of these references
> in the mailing list to postponing bug fixes until 5.2 instead of 5.1
> (https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-03/msg01129.html for
> example). What is that all about?
The first release of gcc-5 will be 5.1.0. There will be no 5.0.0
release...
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Markus