<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:38 PM Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I haven't followed how this worked out for GCC, but I worry that if we<br>
go from 3.9.0 to 4.0 with the intention of doing 5.0 next, users will<br>
get confused when we ship 4.1 as a "dot" release instead of a major<br>
release like we've used to.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>GCC does one major release a year. That release gets a new major number. Subsequent releases during that year get a minor number (<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline" class="cremed">https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Diego.</div></div></div>