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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>,
	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: C++ conversion status update
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160413145922.GJ31406@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E59706EF8DB1D147B15BECA3322E4BDC22A3B81A@eusaamb103.ericsson.se>

> I'm not sure if this was ever brought up before, but version numbers
> don't have much meaning to users.  What is GDB 7.5?  Is that an old
> version?  Is that the latest?  
> Using a date scheme would be better, a la Ubuntu. When a user
> see 16.04 they know they have the latest-and-greatest.
> 
> http://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-in-a-version-number-anyway/

I had the same thought. In fact, AdaCore is moving in that direction
as well.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-13 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24 13:07 Pedro Alves
2015-12-14 14:40 ` Yao Qi
2015-12-14 19:09   ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-15 11:39     ` Jose E. Marchesi
2015-12-15 20:03       ` Simon Marchi
2015-12-16  0:19         ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-16  0:21           ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-16  1:19             ` Simon Marchi
2015-12-16 20:11               ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-16 20:15       ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-16 20:30         ` Simon Marchi
2015-12-16 22:10           ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-16 22:59             ` Pedro Alves
2016-01-19 19:00     ` John Baldwin
2016-01-20 11:10       ` Pedro Alves
2016-01-20 23:33         ` John Baldwin
2016-01-21 11:38           ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-16  0:21           ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-18 16:51             ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-19 19:26               ` John Baldwin
2016-04-19 20:36                 ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-19 21:40                   ` John Baldwin
2016-04-19 22:20                     ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-13  0:25     ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-13 11:07       ` Yao Qi
2016-04-13 14:13         ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-13 14:31           ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2016-04-13 12:41       ` Joel Brobecker
2016-04-13 14:04         ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-13 14:16           ` Joel Brobecker
2016-04-13 14:27             ` Luis Machado
2016-04-13 14:35             ` Marc Khouzam
2016-04-13 14:59               ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2016-04-13 14:40             ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-18 17:29               ` Pedro Alves

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