On 2015.03.21 at 12:11 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf > <mar...@trippelsdorf.de> wrote: > > On 2015.03.20 at 20:08 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> What was the final decision concerning future versioning of FSF > >> gcc post-5.0? In particular, I am confused about the designation of > >> maintenance releases of 5.0. Will the next maintenance release be 5.1 > >> or 5.0.1? I assume if it is 5.1, then after branching for release of > >> 5.0, trunk will become 6.0, no? > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#num_scheme > > So according to that webpage, trunk becomes 6.0 and the first > maintenance release of 5.0 becomes 5.1 (with 5.0.1 being the > pre-release state of the gcc-5_0-branch prior to the actual 5.1 > maintenance release). What is confusing me is all of these references > in the mailing list to postponing bug fixes until 5.2 instead of 5.1 > (https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-03/msg01129.html for > example). What is that all about?
The first release of gcc-5 will be 5.1.0. There will be no 5.0.0 release... -- Markus