versioning

Build automation and deployment for Javascript

Hi everyone, i work at the digital department of a public broadcaster, together with two other frontend developers. We're currently looking into improving our Javascript workflow and build processes. Stuff like packaging, minifying, versioning, etcetera. In an ideal scenario, we would have a global repository for all Javascript-related...

how to make stable release in using Maven and SVN

Hi, we are having about 100 maven artifacts in our java based project. these artifacts categorize under 5 different products. obviously some of them are shared between products. the problem is that, if you tag a product in svn for a release. the tag is not stable. because dependent shared modules are snapshot and they can be changed by...

Web Services versioning and server side handling

I am trying to devise a strategy for Web Services versioning and how to handle versions from a SCM point of view. We are doing bottom-up (JAX-WS) services, and therefore have less control over the schema and can't follow some schema versioning of the best practices. My current thoughts are: 1) Major changes (non-backwards compatible): ...

Are there any apps that save backup versions of a file with one click (save, commit, etc) live while editing?

Just something that will save changes automatically, while i'm editing say in gedit, or notepad plus plus, or even windows text editor, etc. I can't seem to find exactly what i'm looking and SVN, BZR, and GIT are too complicated. One should be able to start a new project, start writing code, and that's it! So... I'm going to create a w...

C#: how to set version number of assembly

I have written a DLL in C# using VS2005. Currently the DLL is showing a version number of 1.0.0.0. How do I set this version number to something different? ...

Merging two git repositories as different versions

I have two git repositories, like this: proj1 proj2 proj1 has a tag v1.0.0 and proj2 has tags v2.0.0 and v2.1.0. Now I would like to merge proj1 (the v1.0.0 tag in particular) into proj2 as if it was an earlier version of proj2, so that I have the tags v1.0.0, v2.0.0 and v2.1.0. I'm also fine if I have to merge proj2 into proj1 or me...

VisualStudio: translating a build version to a calendar date

I know that the version string generated by Visual Studio is based on the date/time of when the build was run. Given the partial version string "3856.24352" generated by Visual Studio, how can I translate that to the calendar day on which that build took place? ...

SQL server failover Cluster not reporting correct patch version....

Hi, I've got a bit of an obscure problem and I'm hoping someone here can give me some pointers regarding it, I've exhausted everythign I can think of... At the moment, I have a two node cluster setup (sql server 2008). I have patched this, as per the microsoft guidlines, to service pack 1. The issue is, when I connect to each node indi...

How to deliver multiple application versions without confusion?

We currently work on multiple branches of our web application. The VCS of choice is SVN. We have: v1: /trunk, live application, bugfixing v2: /branches/1, additional features, without trunk bugfixes There are more steps planned. The current plan is to have a stable and client accepted v1 and then merge v2 into v1. At that point it's...

what is the best solution for php xml based content management solution with flex?

The application needs versioning of the xml documents along with managing. The best java solution close to my requirement is Nuxeo. I need a solution specific to PHP. Please suggest a good open source Enterprise level content management system which should have a API through which I can communicate even from flex. ...

Mercurial repo: ignore all folders which contain their own repo?

I came on board about 6 months ago, and when I arrived, my group was using NO form of versioning. I have since convinced mgmt to use Mercurial in new projects, so we have on our webserver the following structure: -MainFolder (which includes files for the main project) +Subfolder A, which contains (old) project A with NO hg repo +Su...

System for language versioning of .NET sites or Apps

Many years ago I build a simple system for handling languageversioning of texts in ASP.classic sites. Since then I have not converted or maintained it, and have been using various sub-optimal solutions (and lets face it, the system was probably not as great as I remember it ;-) What do you use for language versioning texts for your site...

Displaying the build time-stamp in an application

I would like to display the time-stamp of when the application was built in an about box. This will allow me tracking different versions of the application. How can I retrieve this information in Java? ...

Keeping a public and private version of my app using Git

I am building a Rails app that I manage with Git. All is perfect, but I'd like keep a public version as well as a private one. That is: the public version is for a public repository (for people to use), and the private version is for my own site. The idea is that both versions should be up-to-date, with the difference that my priv...

qTip jQuery version conflicts

Is it standard practice to hold an entire project at a certain release of jQuery until I can fix one measly bug? details: I'm using an older version of qTip because that is what works with jQuery 1.4.2 (the current release when I started the project). It's important to note that the release candidate of qTip does not work with the curr...

Best way of maintaining versions

Hi All, I want to maintain version control in following application so what will be best option for maintaining version? In my app there is tool which will generate resources as input for my frame work. For the sake of simplicity we can take a eg like in tool there are same options so one can set some values over there. Just assume th...

What changes can make serialized class versions incompatible?

I'm experimenting with the java serialization API to create small persistent objects. In my research I have found a lot on the importance of versioning, so you can detect and handle incompatible changes between the stored object model and the current object model. What I can't seem to find is what changes to the object model can actual...