On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:20:23AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> I think that if anybody has strong objections, now is the time to make >> them. Otherwise I think we should go with this plan. > > My preference was to keep the current versioning scheme, after all, even > right now it is IMHO worthwhile to tell users about to significant user > visible change with libstdc++ ABI. > But not a strong objection from me.
The point is we have significant user visible changes for each release. Where the "significance" is of course a subjective matter. The other thing I could have lived with is doing 4.10.0 (and keeping the major at 4 forever). But "randomly" bumping the major version looks crap to me, esp. as 5.0.0 will be seen as very very experimental. Richard. > Jakub
