GCC version bikeshedding

[Richard Biener]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:20:23AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor 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.
>
> My preference was to keep the current versioning scheme, after all, even
> right now it is IMHO worthwhile to tell users about to significant user
> visible change with libstdc++ ABI.
> But not a strong objection from me.

The point is we have significant user visible changes for each release.
Where the "significance" is of course a subjective matter.

The other thing I could have lived with is doing 4.10.0 (and keeping
the major at 4 forever).  But "randomly" bumping the major version
looks crap to me, esp. as 5.0.0 will be seen as very very experimental.

Richard.

>         Jakub