From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Christopher Faylor Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: CVS versions of gdb have same number as stable version. Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:51:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A8DD866.F5151314@cygnus.com> References: <200102161928.LAA00929@bosch.cygnus.com> <5mhf1u9z9y.fsf@jtc.redback.com> <1010216201646.ZM12268@ocotillo.lan> <14989.36272.996420.519178@kwikemart.cygnus.com> <3A8D9C8D.208FFB30@apple.com> <20010216173014.A22326@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00249.html Christopher Faylor wrote: > >So for consistency with other projects, I'd favor calling it 5.0.90 > >now, and 5.1.90 right after the next release, and to update an > >appended date every day - that has been very handy for GCC. 5.1.0.90 :-) > I like this idea. The gcc group has just established an account on > gcc.gnu.org for handling administrative stuff like this. There must be a better way of doing this other than filling gdb/Makefile.in,v up with dummy CVS entries. Is there a way that CVS can edit the file on the way out? If nothing else, a separate file (version.h :-) and put the information in there. Andrew