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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB version numbering
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070710192534.GA3943@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4693BACE.3030000@redhat.com>

> 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?

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09 10:19 Nick Roberts
2007-07-09 17:20 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-07-09 22:48   ` Nick Roberts
2007-07-10 16:58     ` Andrew Cagney
2007-07-10 19:23       ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2007-07-10 19:33         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-07-10 20:14           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-10 19:42         ` Dave Korn
2007-07-10 20:17           ` Eli Zaretskii

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