From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>,
Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB version numbering
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070710193321.GA26842@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070710192534.GA3943@adacore.com>
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:25:34PM -0700, 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?
I think that moving the source code repository into the open marked a
fundamental change in the timeline of GDB, and changing to the GPLv3
will make at best a small bump. GPLv3 is a big deal spread out over
the whole GNU project, but not a big deal for GDB in particular.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 19:33 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
2007-07-10 19:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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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