<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 22, 2015, at 12:02 AM, Chandler Carruth <<a href="mailto:chandlerc@gmail.com" class="">chandlerc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:00 AM Mehdi Amini <<a href="mailto:mehdi.amini@apple.com" class="">mehdi.amini@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
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On Oct 21, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Rafael Espíndola <<a href="mailto:rafael.espindola@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">rafael.espindola@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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>> That make sense to you Rafael?<br class="">
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> I think we should have a single Epoc number. We should just remember<br class="">
> to update it once per release at least.<br class="">
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What would be the benefit over encoding the release number?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While the open source project would track it to a major release number, vendors of LLVM or users who have unrelated release processes might want to override the version numbers to totally unrelated things. Despite this, the bitcode has a fundamental and technical epoch. Its tracking of the major release is a matter of convention and policy of the open source project.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>If the point is to stick with major release, that’s fine. </div><div>I was reluctant to manually bump the epoch with *each* release (i.e. minor as well).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>— </div><div>Mehdi</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I'm always reluctant to mechanisms that need a manual intervention.<br class="">
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