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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:56:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r365725 - head/lang/gcc5
Message-ID:  <alpine.LSU.2.11.1408252051590.3274@tuna.site>
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 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



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