Is there a standard idiom for comparing version numbers? I can't just use a straight String compareTo because I don't know yet what the maximum number of point releases there will be. I need to compare the versions and have the following hold true: 1.0 < 1.1 1.0.1 < 1.1 1.9 < 1.10 ...
I am looking out for some good practices on naming assemblies and versioning them. How often do you increment the major or minor versions? In some cases, I have seen releases going straight from version 1.0 to 3.0. In other cases, it seems to be stuck at version 1.0.2.xxxx. This will be for a shared assembly used in multiple projects a...
There are two scenarios I need to clarify: An executable compiled with .NET 3.5 needs to use a library compiled with .NET 1.1 and the library must run on the 1.1 runtime. An executable compiled with .NET 1.1 needs to use a library compiled with .NET 3.5. I cannot find a reliable source stating that it is not possible to load two vers...
If A references assembly B 1.1 and C, and C references B 1.2, how do you avoid assembly conflicts? I nievely assumed C's references would be encapsulated away and would not cause any problems, but it appears all the dll's are copied to the bin, which is where the problem occurs. I understand the two ways around this are to use the GAC ...
Hi, If I change the WCF, do I have to run some sort of update on all client computers that are accessing the service? (i.e. run svutils.exe and update all app.config's etc?) ...
I am currently working on automating/improving the release process for packaging my shop's entire product. Currently the product is a combination of: Java server-side codebase XML configuration and application files Shell and batch scripts for administrators Statically served HTML pages and some other stuff, but that's most of it ...
I have an executable on Linux that loads libfoo.so.1 (that's a SONAME) as one of its dependencies (via another shared library). It also links to another system library, which, in turn, links to a system version, libfoo.so.2. As a result, both libfoo.so.1 and libfoo.so.2 are loaded during execution, and code that was supposed to call func...
i would like to release a snapshot project 'foo-1.0-SNAPSHOT' using the maven release plugin. The project depends on a 3rd party module 'bar-1.0-SNAPSHOT' which is not released yet. I use the option 'allowTimestampedSnapshots' in my project's pom.xml to allow timestamped snapshots but i assume that the 3rd party module (bar) is not times...
How to monitor version in swf file when we compile a swf file in Adobe Flex file? ...
Java is nearing version 7. It occurs to me that there there must be plenty of textbooks and training manuals kicking around that teach methods based on older versions of Java; where the methods taught, would have far better solutions now. What are some boilerplate code situations, especially ones that you see people implement through fo...
The company I work for writes a lot smallish Perl and Bash scripts to massage data into something usable for our software. These scripts, like any code, can change. I provided them CVS because of the file versioning rather than repository versioning. Anyway, I am thinking out a deploy tool to get the scripts from development to produc...
I have been struggling with versioning software for a while now. I'm not talking about a naming convention, I'm talking about how to actually apply a version in a build system all the way through to a release. I generally use major.minor.maintenance-[release type] i.e. 1.0.2-rc1 The problem is managing the version number. I've tried ma...
I'm looking at building basic CMS functionality into our web product and am researching tips and design ideas for versioning content. I'm specifically looking for database schemas in use today. What are you using for content versioning? What patterns apply if you have different types of content that need versions stored? How is question...
I have a RESTful web service deployed at http://example.com/v1/SomeResource. One day, a new protocol version (that is not backwards compatible) is deployed to http://example.com/v2/SomeResource. From the client of view, this upgrade could occur at any time between two HTTP requests. How does the server indicate to the client that it no ...
I have a Windows application (VS2005/C#) which comes in two versions, Enterprise and Pro. In the Pro version, some of the features and menus are disabled. Currently, I'm doing this by commenting out the disabling code to create the Enterprise version, then I copy each executable file to another location. Obviously this process is fraught...
We're in the process of packaging combinations of our products/modules. Some of them are stand-alone some are interdependent. All versions must be deployable side-by-side. As it is we're considering two choices: One MSI per package and version One MSI per product/module and version The first alternative would mean that combinations o...
As part of our build process I need to set the version information for all our compiled binaries. Some of the binaries already have version information (added at compile time) and some do not. I want to be able to apply the following information: Company Name Copyright Notice Product Name Product Description File Version Product V...
In our processing software we are moving from one version of an external assembly to a newer version. While the overall task that the assembly performs are the same, the API is radically different and no backwards compatibility have been maintained. The API is responsible for extracting data from external stations which may be running wi...
I have a asp.net web application which has a number of versions deployed on different customer servers inside their networks. One practice that we have is to have clients email screenshots when they have issues. In the old asp.net 1.1 days, we could grab details of the build DLL, using reflection, and show info about the build date and...
In Visual Studio 2005, is there an easy way to automatically increment the assembly/file build numbers after a successful build? Emphasis on easy. I would like to track my build version, without having to set up CruiseControl or some similar tool. ...