[PATCH][www] Document versioning scheme for GCC 5 and up

[Richard Biener]

On April 11, 2015 9:23:18 PM GMT+02:00, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, Richard Biener wrote:
>> The following aims to document the details of the versioning scheme
>we
>> intend to use for GCC 5 and up.
>> 
>> Summary in non-html: Development of GCC 5 will happen as
>> GCC 5.0.0 (experimental), once we enter regression-fixing-only mode 
>> (post-stage3) it will become GCC 5.0.1 (prerelease).  The
>> GCC 5 release itself will be numbered GCC 5.1.0 and development
>> on the branch will continue as GCC 5.1.1 followed by a GCC 5.2.0
>> release and GCC 5.2.1 branch development.  Stage1 of GCC 6 will
>> bump us to GCC 6.0.0.
>
>Is the idea really to call the actual releases 5.1.0, 5.2.0 and
>so forth, or will those be labled 5.1, 5.2,...?  
>
>Using the former for gcc/BASEVER etc. make sense.  From a "marketing"
>perspective I would recommend the simpler 5.1, 5.2, etc.

5.1

Richard.

>Gerald