On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:29 PM, George Vasick <George.Vasick at sun.com> wrote: > In the previous case for 4.3.2, we had proposed adding "plain" links in > /usr/bin to the default version of GCC, e.g. /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.3.2. > ?According to the gcc man page, plain gcc should invoke the last version > installed.
I'd like to second Rainer's comments that the user should never really see the bugfix level of things (i.e., that from their perspective, 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 are really the same "version 4.3 compiler"). Such bugfix-level-versioning *is* appropriate in the packaging metadata, where one could note that *this* gcc package set is for "4.3.2" and *that* package set (with the same package names...) is for "4.3.3". This is common for the rest of the OS - we don't expose the hg patch level for the "ls" command, for example. -John
