Version string bump

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Thu May 18 20:31:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:04:08PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> The way we do this in glibc-land is to set VERSION=2.10.90.  This then
> becomes the first prerelease version number.

I'm unconvinced this is as clear as gcc-land's "2.96 20000518 (experimental)"
vs "2.95.2 19991024 (release)".  Having the status marker in there
explicitly makes sure that the user doesn't have to figure out
whatever numbering scheme you're using.


r~


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