[ale] Limbo

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Fulton Green wrote:

> The consensus on /. was that since Red Hat is now designating version 3.1 as
> the default GCC in the beta, thereby potentially breaking apps compiled with
> version 2.96, this would warrant a "dot-oh" release. I think this was
> roughly the rationale behind the jump from 6.2 to 7.0. It definitely was NOT
> the then-new 2.4 kernel, as 7.0 still installed 2.2 by default (though a
> manually-installable 2.4 "technology preview" was provided in that distro).

Red Hat Linux major version numbers are changed any time the ABI / API
changes are non-backwards compatible (meaning, if I develop software on this
version, will it run on older versions?  If not, bump the major number).  
Since apps compiled dynamically w/ gcc 3.1 will not run on Red Hat 7.3, it
would seem the next one will need to be 8.0 (assuming gcc 3.1 makes it).

later,
chris


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