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Version Numbering - Best Practice?

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Vincent O'Sullivan

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Version Numbering - Best Practice? Posted: Dec 3, 2003 6:02 AM
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When I release application versions (primarily front end stuff) I apply the following version numbering rules:

Major: Increment if a massive change has happened to the UI. e.g Numerous UI changes that imply a significant change in the way application is (or can be) used. Reset minor and build numbers to zero.

Minor: Increment if UI has changed (unless the UI changes are very trivial fixes) but application usage and capabilities are basically unchanged.

Build: Increment with each release.

This seems reasonable to be but there's a bit of a debate here on whether the Major number should be incremented if the Minor number becomes "too big". Also, should a Minor version release reset the Build number (or, conversely, should the Build number ever be reset).

Opinions welcome - particularly with regard to the build number.

Vince.


al

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Re: Version Numbering - Best Practice? Posted: Dec 4, 2003 11:58 PM
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I've never seen any standards with version numbering, but would be interested to know if there were.

My practice is similar to yours. If you are worried about minor numbers getting too big, e.g. you don't want version 1.234, you could go to three decimal points, so to speak, e.g.
version 1.2.34

Joe Parks

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Re: Version Numbering - Best Practice? Posted: Dec 5, 2003 6:08 AM
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The versioning scheme for Java, for example, says that all minor versions within a major version are bytecode-compatible. That is, something compiled with 1.0 will (or, is supposed to) run in 1.5.

fatih karakurt

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Re: Version Numbering - Best Practice? Posted: Dec 5, 2003 1:50 PM
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Another practice is: major.minor and add another digit for maintenance releases (no new functionality). Eg.

version 1.0
version 1.1
version 1.11 (maintenance on 1.1)

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