Version numbers question
I am wondering why it appears that GCC has started drastically raising its major version number for minor changes, instead of spending several years on version 3 and 4. 4.0.1, 4.1.1 and 4.12, 4.2.3, 4.3.2, 4.4.5, up through 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, the 4.8 and 4.9 releases, then version 5.1 and talking about version 6. Little changes should be reflected in minor version and bugfix numbers, not major version jumps. John Tellefson Kansas, where Brownback talks and the wind blows USA
Re: Version numbers question
Thanks, Andrew, a reasonable reason. Time flies and GCC or its predecessor has been around for about 25 years. In another 25, hopefully GCC will still be a leading compiler and the larger numbers won't seem awkward. Regarding what's a small vs large change, I'd say that building with C++ and newly generated C++ library was worthy of a major version bump, but that's just my amateur opinion. John pins...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >> On Jun 22, 2015, at 6:55 AM, JohnT wrote: >> >> I am wondering why it appears that GCC has started drastically raising its >> major version number for minor changes, instead of spending several years >> on version 3 and 4. 4.0.1, 4.1.1 and 4.12, 4.2.3, 4.3.2, 4.4.5, up through >> 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, the 4.8 and 4.9 releases, then version 5.1 and >> talking about version 6. Little changes should be reflected in minor >> version and bugfix numbers, not major version jumps. > The simple answer is there is no justification to ever bump the major version > any time soon so why not make the major version the one which gets bumped > each year. So 5 is the version which is released this year, 6 next year, etc. > this is no different from 4.9 last year and 4.8 the year before really. Just > it was decided 4.10 does not make sense and is partly confusing to some > users; does it come before or after 4.2. Anyways the decision was done to get > rid of that confusion and also to avoid having to make a justification of > when to bump the major version number. >
Please update GNU GCC mirror list
Some of the sites listed on the mirror list http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html aren't up to date and some aren't accessible. LaffeyComputer.com doesn't allow access, and used to require a password for access. This isn't the way a GNU mirror site ought to operate. There should be free public access. John Tellefson Salina, KS USA -- http://www.mozilla.org Firefox browser, Thunderbird email, Seamonkey all-in-one, Sunbird calendar and more. Free open-source software for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and other systems
build results for 4.6.3
i686-pc-linux-gnu Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/lto-wrapper Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /usr/local/gcc-4.6.3/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,java,lto,objc Thread model: posix gcc version 4.6.3 (GCC) Mandriva 2010.0 Linux localhost 2.6.31.14-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Wed Nov 24 11:24:43 EST 2010 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ GNU/Linux glibc-2.10.1-6.7mnb2 512 Mb binutils 2.21.1 ppl-0.12.1 cloog-ppl-0.15.11 Workaround for building this java with an older java (gcj-4.4.1) already installed and a bug in gjar that causes a nullpointer exception: remove the old java before building, so the build system uses the just-compiled gjar to finish the build. Submitted by John Tellefson -- http://www.mozilla.org Firefox browser, Thunderbird email, Seamonkey all-in-one, Sunbird calendar and more. Free secure open-source software for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and other operating systems
