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Re: Version string bump

> Date: 16 May 2000 20:52:51 -0700
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>

>    Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:22:45 -0700
>    From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
> 
>    This bumps the VERSION strings in the trunk so they are more true.
> 
>    -VERSION=2.9.5
>    +VERSION=2.11.0
> 
> 2.10.1 would be much better than 2.11.0.  In practice binutils
> snapshots escape into the outside world.  If a binutils snapshot is
> out there with 2.11.0, people are going to think that there has been a
> 2.11 release.

The way we do this in glibc-land is to set VERSION=2.10.90.  This then
becomes the first prerelease version number.  binutils doesn't have
prereleases (well, we haven't yet) but the important thing is that
someone looking at 2.10.90 should be aware that there's something
funny about the release.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>
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