[cfe-dev] What version comes after 3.9? (Was: [3.9 Release] Release plan and call for testers)
Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jun 13 16:54:19 PDT 2016
Breaking this out into a separate thread since it's kind of a separate
issue, and to make sure people see it.
If you have opinions on this, please chime in. I'd like to collect as
many arguments here as possible to make a good decision. The main
contestants are 4.0 and 3.10, and I've seen folks being equally
surprised by both.
Brain-dump so far:
- After LLVM 1.9 came 2.0, and after 2.9 came 3.0; naturally, 4.0
comes after 3.9.
- There are special bitcode stability rules [1] concerning major
version bumps. 2.0 and 3.0 had major IR changes, but since there
aren't any this time, we should go to 3.10.
- The bitcode stability rules allow for breakage with major versions,
but it doesn't require it, so 4.0 is fine.
- But maybe we want to save 4.0 for when we do have a significant IR change?
- We've never had an x.10 version before; maybe that would be
confusing? Perhaps it's simply time to move on (like Linux 2.6.39 ->
3.0 and 3.19 -> 4.0).
- Since we do time-based rather than feature-based releases, the major
version number shouldn't mean anything special anyway (e.g. big IR
changes or not), so 4.0?
- Everyone knows that after 9 comes 10, so 3.10 it is. The version is
a tuple after all.
- Let's go for 4.0 now, and 5.0 after that. Then the "dot"-releases in
between would correspond to minor version bumps, which would make
sense (and catch up with GCC!).
- It's just a number, no big deal; flip a coin or something.
What do you think?
- Hans
[1]. http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#ir-backwards-compatibility
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