Mark Mitchell wrote:
The GCC SC is still discussing a few of the finer points of the transition to GPLv3.
3. After GCC 4.2.1 is released, we will renumber the branch to GCC 4.3. What would have been GCC 4.2.2 will instead be GCC 4.3.3, to try to emphasize the GPLv3 switch. The GCC mainline will then be GCC 4.4.
This seems to confabulate the meaning of version numbers to now mean something about licensing. The difference between 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 would normally be considered a minor bug fix release, under this scheme of calling it 4.3.3, one would be misled to think that this is a minor bug fix for a non-existent minor release. The version numbering scheme correlating to functional changes is more valuable than any (IMO insubstantial) benefit of identifying the change in license version. -- Michael Eager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
