Answer by Richard Lucas for How do other development teams approach version...
Version numbers can be used to sell upgrades to non-technical people either from the perspective of the software vendor wanting to get people off old versions or the user trying to get management...
View ArticleAnswer by Jack for How do other development teams approach version numbers?
As Christian said, we used major/minor numbers along with month-date for release.For internal usage, we use CVS's date. In our case, product is fairly small, we refer with md5sum when talking to QA folks.
View ArticleAnswer by Christian Hayter for How do other development teams approach...
We use Microsoft's system (or at least their documented system - real binaries seem to be rather less consistent):Major version (incremented on breaking or large changes)Minor version (incremented on...
View ArticleAnswer by lfx for How do other development teams approach version numbers?
My company develops product for 19 years, and we have only version - 3. Although we had 1.2, 1.5 and so on. I think this is the best practice.
View ArticleAnswer by jaywon for How do other development teams approach version numbers?
I think it's pretty standard to use a sub-version format like 1.1 or 1.1.2 or something to that effect for just bug fix releases, minor additions, etc... and then plan to increment the main version...
View ArticleAnswer by Fiona - myaccessible.website for How do other development teams...
We tend to go with something like 1.20.5, where the 20 is, in your case, the fairly high 'release' number or something.When we completely re-write a product in a different implementation, it becomes...
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Our application is quite mature, and thus we are up to version 16. However, this can give the impression that the software is old and out of touch (how many commercial applications are there with a...
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