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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r365725 - head/lang/gcc5
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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