Re: GCC multi-version development layout

Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-help <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:41:17 +0100
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On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 at 16:34, Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 at 16:23, Heime <[email protected]> wrote:
> > How would one know whether 5.0.1 is in experimental stage 4 or in
> > prerelease?
>
> They're the same thing.

There is no need for the version number to change to reflect any difference.

Users do not need to know or care about the difference. If you're a
GCC developer, you should know what dev phase we're in, and you can
look at the date on a snapshot to see when it was from. The version
number isn't what you should care about there.