On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:43:09PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > In the eyes of at least some, especially the dates for the old > releases in releases.html are of historical interest, so I'd be > quite hesitant to remove these. > > I'm not sure I agree that it is easy to miss the statement on > releases past 4.0.0 on that page, but empircal evidence seems > to prove me wrong.
Let's just add the info to the table. Here is a proposed patch. Note that I resorted by date and added an explanation. I think that the attempt to sort by release number became increasingly untenable after 3.4, because we now have heavy overlapping. Better to just state it and explain it. Index: releases.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/releases.html,v retrieving revision 1.67 diff -u -r1.67 releases.html --- releases.html 10 Mar 2006 12:42:46 -0000 1.67 +++ releases.html 1 Jun 2006 22:20:40 -0000 @@ -26,21 +26,31 @@ <h2><a name="timeline">GCC Timeline</a></h2> +<p>The table is sorted by date; starting with version 3.3.4, the GCC +project provides bug releases for older release branches for those users +who require a very high degree of stability.</p> + <p>Please refer to our <a href="develop.html#timeline">development plan</a> -for releases past 4.0.0 and future releases.</p> +for future releases, and an alternative view of the release history.</p> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr><th>Release</th><th>Release date</th></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-4.1/">GCC 4.1.1</a></td> <td>May 24, 2006</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-4.0/">GCC 4.0.3</a></td> <td>March 10, 2006</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.4/">GCC 3.4.6</a></td> <td>March 06, 2006</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-4.1/">GCC 4.1.0</a></td> <td>February 28, 2006</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.4/">GCC 3.4.5</a></td> <td>November 30, 2005</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-4.0/">GCC 4.0.2</a></td> <td>September 28, 2005</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-4.0/">GCC 4.0.1</a></td> <td>July 7, 2005</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.4/">GCC 3.4.4</a></td> <td>May 18, 2005</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3.6</a></td> <td>May 3, 2005</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-4.0/">GCC 4.0.0</a></td> <td>April 20, 2005</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.4/">GCC 3.4.3</a></td> <td>November 4, 2004</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3.5</a></td> <td>September 30, 2004</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.4/">GCC 3.4.2</a></td> <td>September 6, 2004</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.4/">GCC 3.4.1</a></td> <td>July 1, 2004</td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="gcc-3.4/">GCC 3.4.0</a></td> <td>April 18, 2004</td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3.6</a></td> <td>May 3, 2005</td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3.5</a></td> <td>September 30, 2004</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3.4</a></td> <td>May 31, 2004</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="gcc-3.4/">GCC 3.4.0</a></td> <td>April 18, 2004</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3.3</a></td> <td>February 14, 2004</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3.2</a></td> <td>October 17, 2003</td></tr> <tr><td><a href="gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3.1</a></td> <td>August 8, 2003</td></tr>
