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Re: [commit/branch] Version set to 6.7.90


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:29:00AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > This is unfortunate, since 6.7.90 is smaller than 6.7.90.20080313-cvs.
> > It would have been better to bump the version to 6.7.91.
> 
> I'm just following the guidelines that are documented at
> http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdbint_16.html#SEC129.
> The reason why it sounds strange is because I think the guidelines
> are assuming that I should be making the first pre-release off the
> branchpoint, so there should be no 6.7.90.something before 6.7.90.

Right.  But if you don't make that snapshot, the first prerelease
should be 6.7.91; version numbers going backwards is bad mojo :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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