From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 65505 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2016 14:35:23 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 65493 invoked by uid 89); 13 Apr 2016 14:35:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Definitely X-HELO: usplmg21.ericsson.net Received: from usplmg21.ericsson.net (HELO usplmg21.ericsson.net) (198.24.6.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:35:12 +0000 Received: from EUSAAHC005.ericsson.se (Unknown_Domain [147.117.188.87]) by usplmg21.ericsson.net (Symantec Mail Security) with SMTP id 6D.AA.03614.6F85E075; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:34:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from EUSAAMB103.ericsson.se ([147.117.188.120]) by EUSAAHC005.ericsson.se ([147.117.188.87]) with mapi id 14.03.0248.002; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:35:09 -0400 From: Marc Khouzam To: Joel Brobecker , Pedro Alves CC: Yao Qi , "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: RE: C++ conversion status update Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <565460FB.6070103@redhat.com> <86zixdnlfg.fsf@gmail.com> <566F13D4.9000900@redhat.com> <570D91F6.2020702@redhat.com> <20160413124127.GG31406@adacore.com> <570E51CB.6010304@redhat.com>,<20160413141648.GI31406@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20160413141648.GI31406@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 > > (Another thought that crossed my mind before is to switch the > > numbering scheme to follow something like gcc's. That is, make > > the minor number be the major number going forward, as > > the minor number actually counts new-feature releases, while > > the major number is arbitrary.) >=20 > Definitely a possibility. Let's discuss that separately at some point! 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?=20=20 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/ Just a thought. Marc