Re: Developing frameworks and applications in tandem and managing dependencies

On 2012-07-31 21:57, Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
> I'm glad you're making some progress in defining a scheme which works for
> you.

Thanks, me too. I just hope my ideas prove capable of being born out in
practice. (Is it 'practice' or 'practise' -- I can never remember :P)

> Our Dev branches could equally well be named "trunk" as you observe. The
> difference from the scheme you describe seems to me to be that once we have
> created a Release branch from Dev, the Release branch can be modified
> subsequently (so, the Visual Lint 3.5 release branch was spawned at
> 3.5.0.171, and has since been the source of 3.5.1.172, 3.5.2.174 etc.)
> whilst the Dev branch became 4.0.0.173 as soon as the v3.5 branch was
> created.

That's an interesting version numbering scheme you seem to have there.
Care to explain how that works?