Re: Developing frameworks and applications in tandem and managing dependencies

Thanks for the run down. How do you manage the build number? Do you just
manually edit it in a file?

On 2012-08-01 01:47, Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
> Hi John,
>> That's an interesting version numbering scheme you seem to have there.
>> Care to explain how that works?
> 
> It's pretty simple really. The basic format is a pretty standard
> "major.minor.revision.build".
> 
> The general rule is that no two formal builds (even of different versions of
> the same product) have the same build no., and that each
> "major.minor.revision" is unique to a given public release.
> 
> So you won't get two public 3.5.6.xx builds, for example; nor a 3.5.x.x and
> a 4.0.x.x build with the same build number.
> 
> When we start work on a new major/minor version, the revision field is kept
> as 0 until after it's been publicly released. Hopefully the diagram below
> will explain it:
> 
>   Dev           Release (v3.0)    Release (v3.5)
> 3.5.0.167        3.0.8.166 (i)
> 3.5.0.168
> 3.5.0.170
> 3.5.0.171  (ii)                =>  3.5.1.173
>                                    3.5.1.172
> 4.0.0.173 (iii)                    3.5.2.174
> 4.0.0.175
> 4.0.0.176 
> 4.0.0.177                          3.5.3.178
> 4.0.0.179
>                                    3.5.4.180
> 4.0.0.181                          3.5.5.182 (iv)
> 4.0.0.183
> 4.0.0.185 (WIP)                    3.5.6.184 (WIP)
> 
>   (i) Final v3.0 build. Superseded by 3.5.0.171
>  (ii) First public v3.5 build
> (iii) First v4.0 development build
>  (iv) Current public v3.5 build
> 
> Build nos for the two WIP builds are obviously predicted rather than actual
> at the moment.
> 
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
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