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Paya
Paya

Reputation: 5222

Pros and cons of different version schemes

There are many different version schemes, and it seems like every major software company uses a different scheme, but I would like to know which scheme is best for mISV.

Also, if you can, I would like you to write which scheme do you use in your company, pros and cons of such scheme, and why you have chosen that scheme.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 2765

Answers (2)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323045

mISV programs can be characterize by a high release rate, and at least by a high build rate (up to several builds a day).

In that context, it can be interesting to monitor:

  • a build Id (which can be the SVN id or a Git or Mercurial SHA1)
  • a classic Major.Minor.Build version

For the team, you can communicate in term of build id, while in term of release management for the client, a more classic version schemes is in order.

Upvotes: 2

John Leidegren
John Leidegren

Reputation: 60987

Quite frankly, I think this one is solved. Use date and time stamps. You're version numbers then turn into readable strings that people understand.

In the off chance that you have many different builds out in the wild, each should be tagged as such. Besides a version number (which is a date and time stamp) you'd have a simple tag. Mostly these are simply debug and release. But there are a variety of other such tags that make sense, such as staging, testing, or feature/branch specific tags.

If you wanna embed metadata about your build process/environment I consider that going beyond simple versioning numbers but sometimes, very helpful.

That's about it.

Upvotes: 0

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