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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r365725 - head/lang/gcc5
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 04:15:08PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better to move the port to lang/gcc50?  Presumably
> > the tools will also be gcc50, g++50 etc. right?
> 
> No. :-)
> 
> 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.

./danfe