On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Bingfeng Mei wrote: > Converting to C++ is a major change. Does that justify to have a major > release (5.0.0)?
No. It's not in any way user-visible. In principle I agree with what Zack said in <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg00243.html> on version numbers; certainly an implementation detail can't justify such a change. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com