From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7896 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2007 22:48:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 7888 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jul 2007 22:48:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:48:46 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (216.61.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.61.216]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0753D982A; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:48:43 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C95288FBF6; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:48:41 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18066.47945.530232.677872@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:48:00 -0000 To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GDB version numbering In-Reply-To: <20070709172235.GA3876@adacore.com> References: <18066.2956.730647.124877@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070709172235.GA3876@adacore.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.12 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00069.txt.bz2 > > 2008 8.0 8.1 > > 2009 9.0 9.1 > > 2010 10.0 10.1 > > etc? > > Honestly, I don't think this bring any benefit at all. version 10.x > is as cryptic as version 6.x. Perhaps if you had suggested that > we use version 2008, 2009, etc. But even then I don't see any benefit. I don't see how it can be as cryptic. I know Ubuntu 6.04 is about 15 months old. Can you tell me offhand how old GDB 5.3 or GDB 4.18 is? The benefit probably isn't great but then there is no expense either. > I prefer the current numbering scheme. We can keep a 6.x version number > until we have something major happening. The last time, it was the > transition to multi-arch I think. For 7.0, it looks like it will be > python scripting support. It will surely be an impressive feat but AFAICS it's still just the work of one person. The major number changes seem a little bit arbitrary and perhaps diminish the work of others who contribute towards a minor number change. It's not a big deal though, I was just brainstorming a bit. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob