From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16897 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2007 19:42:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 16889 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jul 2007 19:42:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (194.72.81.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:42:27 +0000 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.8.46]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:42:24 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'Joel Brobecker'" , "'Andrew Cagney'" Cc: "'Nick Roberts'" , References: <18066.2956.730647.124877@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070709172235.GA3876@adacore.com> <18066.47945.530232.677872@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <4693BACE.3030000@redhat.com> <20070710192534.GA3943@adacore.com> Subject: RE: GDB version numbering Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: <00a501c7c32a$7011b580$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20070710192534.GA3943@adacore.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 On 10 July 2007 20:26, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> The reason to bump the major version doesn't need to be technical and >> previously hasn't. For instance, 5.x signified the freeing of GDB's CVS >> repo. Here, similarly, we've got the GPLv3 change that while >> non-technical is a very major change for GDB; something worth >> considering as a trigger for a major version number bump: >> >> GDB 7 is GPLv3+ >> GDB 6 is GPLv2+ > > Indeed. What do others think? "Bikeshed". cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....