Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:56:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r365725 - head/lang/gcc5 Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1408252051590.3274@tuna.site> In-Reply-To: <20140825143028.GA79764@FreeBSD.org> References: <201408231231.s7NCVa2w094830@svn.freebsd.org> <20140825144800.15a65f42@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <alpine.LSU.2.11.1408251456030.3274@tuna.site> <20140825143028.GA79764@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >> GCC changed the versioning scheme similar to FreeBSD: the next >> major releases after GCC 4.8 and GCC 4.9 are going to be GCC 5, >> GCC 6, GCC 7, and so forth. > I think it makes it more similar to Java, Chrome, Firefox and others. > One of the most stupid innovation ever seen. :( > > Luckily, FreeBSD remains relatively sane with dotted version numbers. Perhaps I did not make myself sufficiently clear, but the new model of GCC is basically the model FreeBSD currently uses. :-) Gerald
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