Re: ["patch"/doc] GDB version and branch names

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>]

> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:11:26 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> 
> @value{GDBN}'s mainline uses only dates to differentiate between
> versions.  The CVS repository uses @file{YYYY-MM-DD-cvs} while
> corresponding snapshots use @file{YYYYMMDD}.

I suggest to use @var{yyyy}, @var{mm}, etc., since these strings
really stand for something else.

> To avoid confusion between the main-line, @value{GDBN}'s release branches
> use a more complex version naming scheme.  The schema assumes that a
> series of releases, starting with a major.minor and possibly followed by a
> number of major.minor.minor releases are all to be drawn from a single
> branch.

Same here with `minor' and `major'.

> major.minor (@file{m.n}) identification with a @file{.90} suffix

and with `m.n'.

> The following a example illustrates this sequence using @file{5.1} as

That "a" should be removed.

> @file{gdb-5.1.93.tar.bz2} is just the @file{gdb-5.2.tar} file renamed an
> compressed.

Should be "and", not "an", I think.

Finally, I wonder if we really need to explain all that in so many
words.  (But I won't object if you think it's useful.)