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Re: C++ conversion status update
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Marc Khouzam <marc dot khouzam at ericsson dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>, "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 07:59:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: C++ conversion status update
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> I'm not sure if this was ever brought up before, but version numbers
> don't have much meaning to users. What is GDB 7.5? Is that an old
> version? Is that the latest?
> Using a date scheme would be better, a la Ubuntu. When a user
> see 16.04 they know they have the latest-and-greatest.
>
> http://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-in-a-version-number-anyway/
I had the same thought. In fact, AdaCore is moving in that direction
as well.
--
Joel