RFH: GPLv3
Janis Johnson
janis187@us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 12 18:05:00 GMT 2007
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 18:47 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12 July 2007 18:42, Janis Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:58 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> >> If you want to release gcc 4.2.2, and then release gcc 4.3.0 from the
> >> gcc 4.2 branch, and make mainline gcc the eventual gcc 4.4.0, I'm on
> >> board with that. That is easy enough to understand and not too
> >> difficult to implement. What I'm disagreeing with is moving from gcc
> >> 4.2.2 to gcc 4.3.3.
> >
> > This would be similar to going from GCC 3.1.1 to GCC 3.2 when there
> > was a break in binary compatibility.
>
> Well, it would be more similar to going from 3.1.1 to 3.2.2 and never having
> had a 3.2.0 or a 3.2.1 .....
I meant that Ian's suggestion of going from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0, instead
of to 4.3.3, is a good idea and is similar to going from 3.1.1 to 3.2.
Janis
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