"Joseph S. Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes: > 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.
I think we should change the gcc major release to 5 when we change the libstdc++.so major version number to 7. Ian
