On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 July 2014 23:18, Eric Botcazou wrote: >>> What are you objecting to, calling the next release from trunk 5.0, >>> and the next one after that 6.0? Or the wording chosen to describe the >>> new versioning scheme? >> >> Let's not start another subthread, please, this will be even more confusing. > > I'm not. I'm trying to get your message back on topic. > >> You can reply to my reply to Ian's message if you deem it necessary. > > Are you objecting to the numbering scheme, or Ian's description of it? > > If you have an objection to the concrete plan it would be nice if you > stated clearly what it is.
One thing you might want to consider is that with the typical X.Y.Z versioning of most GNU projects, changing X allows breaking compatibility in a significant way with previous versions. While Z fixes regressions and Y adds new features, X is a place to make infrequent but paradigm shifting changes that are unconstrained by a desire to stay backwards compatible with older values of X. By going to what is essentially a Y.Z.0 release mechanism, you lose that ability to some degree. Maybe that's ok in a mature project like GCC.
