On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:51:15PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: > Forgive me if this has been discussed before. I searched the archives of > debian-user, debian-devel, and debian-release, and saw nothing about > htis. > > It appears that Sarge will be called 3.1. Why is that? I personally > think it should be 4.0, as do many others I have spoken with.. > > 1) Kernel v2.2 is no longer available on install, much less the default. > 2) The installer was totally rewritten. > 3) [the big one] gcc-3's C++ ABI is totally incompatible with > gcc-2.95's. This alone should force a major number upgrade. What if I > have my critical custom C++ applications running on woody, and I see > "Oh, 3.0 to 3.1.. I'll dist-upgrade, its no big deal" .. blammo, > everything breaks! > > Am I crazy? Is it too late to bring this up? Wrong forum?
It's probably too late; we've already started changing various programs and documentation to assume 3.1. Maybe 4.0 would've been better but I think by now we should just make sure the release notes are complete. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
