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Re: gcc/egcs version number changes
- To: Nick Burrett <nick dot burrett at btinternet dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcc/egcs version number changes
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 02:40:48 -0600
- cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at issan dot cs dot uni-dortmund dot de>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <m3zp31zf37.fsf@nick.serve.co.uk>you write:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>
> > Jeffrey A Law <law@upchuck.cygnus.com> writes:
> >
> > |> The version string for the mainline sources now looks like:
> > |>
> > |> char *version_string = "gcc-2.96 19990518 (gcc-2.96 experimental)";
> >
> > Why do you duplicate the first part? Should be enough to put
> > "experimental" or "release" in the parens.
>
> Surely even adding `release' is unnecessary since it will be implicit in
> released versions - I'm assuming that you're not going to release
> experimental versions.
I would prefer to be explicit.
jeff