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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:37:07 +0200
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r365725 - head/lang/gcc5
Message-ID:  <53FB4A13.4000008@marino.st>
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 8/25/2014 16:30, 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. :(

What are you talking about?  Clang/LLVM version numbers were catching up
fast and were going to surpass GCC in about 4 years.  Now there's *no
way* Clang/LLVM can catch up!  Pretty smart, eh?

John



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