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Vishnu Babu
Vishnu Babu

Reputation: 1275

Multiple versions of a project in the same solution?

I have a product with a few clients. Currently this product is the same for all of them in terms of look and functionality.I need to implement a few new features called the beta features and make them available to only a few of my clients, rest of the clients will be using the older version and their maintenance requests will be done too. I don't want to duplicate the entire solution for this. What is the best approach for this problem ?. Is maintaining solution with visual studio configuration manager and #if the only way ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 522

Answers (1)

Risto M
Risto M

Reputation: 2999

If beta-features are planned to roll out finally to all customers this sounds like version control branching issue. With modern Version Control System like Git you can create beta branches to handle different development paths.

While your master development branch goes on during maintenance, you can make feature branches where you implement beta-features to certain customers and finally merge them to master branch.

If you try handle this issue in single branch by #iffing your source-code, you have chosen complex path which is error-prone and difficult to scale up.

Upvotes: 2

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