versioning

Best way to version a rails app?

What would be the best way to version a rails application? We want to start to get into more structured testing cycles and having a set version per build is a part of that. We use subversion but I would like to avoid using revision numbers for versions. Is there an easy way to do this automatically? Or should I just define a app_version ...

How to get the last changed Revision per file

Hi, for our build process i need to know the "last changed" Revision of each file in a certain repository. Any Ideas? Kind regards, Flo ...

What version of MS Anti-XSS are you using?

I see there is version 1.5 and 3.0 beta, but I can't seem to find a version 2. Is this just wacky MS versioning? Are you using 3.0? Would you recommend it, or should I stick with 1.5? ...

How should I support and continue development on a forked application?

We have a large application that runs at roughly 5 locations. None of these locations are running the same version of the application. This makes patching and updating very complicated. Try to follow this example: We'll call the application I'm talking about "application A". Now we want to roll out an application B to one of these locat...

Plone issue with versioning - Object's versions lost on cut and paste

Plone 2.5.1 Zope 2.9.5 CMFEditions 1.0rc1 If you create a page in a folder at plonesite root and create a new version of it, once you cut and paste that page to a new location the version will be lost. I've tested this on zope 2.10 and Plone 3.0 and its no longer an issue but I'm interested to see if anyone knows a way to fix this on...

How can I change the version of my project output using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

I've been tasked with updating one of our old programs still in production and don't know my way around MS Visual C++ 6.0. Thanks in advance! ...

How to reference both ASSEMBLYVERSION and ASSEMBLYFILEVERSION?

I need to display both the AssemblyVersion and the AssemblyFileVersion. In AssemblyInfo.cs, I have: [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")] [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("2009.8.0")] However, I only get "2009.8.0" when I reference the above with: public class VersionInfo { public static string AppVersion() { ...

Is there a way to know which versions of python are supported by my code?

You may know the Windows compliance tool that helps people to know if their code us supported by any version of the MS OS. I am looking something similar for Python. I am writing a lib with Python 2.6 and I realized that it was not compatible with Python 2.5 due to the use of the with keyword. I would like to know if there is a simp...

How can I auto increment the C# assembly version via our CI platform (Hudson)?

Myself and my group is horrendous at incrementing assembly version numbers and we frequently ship assemblies with 1.0.0.0 versions. Obviously, this causes a lot of headaches. We're getting a lot better with our practices via our CI platform and I'd really like to set it up to auto increment the values within the assemblyinfo.cs file so...

How to put version information in a multi platform program *nix and win32?

I want to know what is the standard way of doing it. currently I'm thinking in add a series of defines in a header file and inlcudie that file in the main resource file win win32 to update the version resource in win32 and in *nix make some global functions to return this information. and in windows make the msi install file also refle...

How to define the version number of a software?

What is the best method to determine the version number I should use for a software or component? Is there a general rule to set version numbers? I'm pretty sure it is a basic question but I didn't find anything useful after searching a while. ...

Best Practice for Versioned Entities?

Good afternoon, I am currently in the very early phase of a new project written in .Net and using Entity Framework for data persistence/storage. One of the features required is the ability to 'version' certain model types. E.g. one model is one 'Requirement' which will have n 'Requirement Versions', basically having a way of going back ...

Best practice for including version info in Java web apps and libraries?

I'm working on a project that is implementing a number Java web applications (and associated JAR files) using Seam. What is considered best practice with regard to including version information in deployments? What I need to understand is how web applications should contain and publish their versions and how the same can be done for JA...

Version configuration from SQL

How would you create an installation setup that runs against multiple schemas taking into consideration the latest version of the database updates? Ideally: update a single file with a new version number, then send the DBAs an archive containing everything needed to perform the database update. Here is the directory structure: | inst...

How to go about catching database and software version mismatch on deployed application?

I'm developing a standalone application that accesses a common database on a server. It will be used by a few dozen people in my organization. I know that I will need to update the software and the design of the database. This creates the possibility that someone will perform a query on the database using old software. I already have...

Best set of names for iterations ?

Hi there, I was curious what do you use as iteration names and how much iterations do you have? What is the best set of names for iterations which will also be simple enough to explain to the customer. EDIT: lets say that my iterations are 5 weeks long each. cheers Perica ...

Solving our versioning and build problems

Where I work we need to rethink the way we develop software and keep track of each released version. Do you have any suggestions to solve our problems? We develop on Windows in C++ using VS 2005 (and C++ Builder for some interface stuff) We use GIT but in the worse possible way imaginable. We are somewhat open to move to another source...

How should I represent the local patched version of a project?

Let's say that ServiceA, that I work on, uses ProjectB version 1.5.0. We don't quite use it vanilla; we have some patches that we reapply when we integrate new versions of ProjectB; we don't really think of this as a private fork. We proudly announce in various contexts that we use ProjectB. What is the best way to represent that we'r...

Determine the version of my Silverlight app.

I'm trying to determine the version number of my Silverlight application. Currently I am using: string name = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName; AssemblyName asmName = new AssemblyName(name); // http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/45/225355.aspx string versionNo = "Version: " + asmName.Vers...

C# versioning of references for a console application

Hi all, I've built a console application that references version 4.3.2.1 of another dll we've built. It worked fine and did its job. Then version 4.3.2.2 of the dll is built, and the console application starts to die becuase it wants to see 4.3.2.1. Is there any way to tell the console application to use 4.3.2.1 or higher? The metho...