Questions tagged [versioning]
Versioning is the way in which successive versions of the same software are identified using unique version names or unique version numbers.
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Maintaining software for different versions of Ubuntu
I have some software intended to work on both Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 24, but due to differences between the distributions, it doesn't function properly on Ubuntu 24. Given this context, what is the ...
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Versioning for a set of plugin libraries that supports foundational concepts within various toolsets
I have a foundational metamodel which I have implemented using Java interfaces which I can easily version using major.minor.bugfix. I also have plugins that utilize these libraries to implement these ...
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How to deal with conflicting dependencies/versions?
I am developing an application that offers an api to develop plugins for this application. Each plugin can have other plugins as dependencies. I am planning to offer some basic plugins out of the box, ...
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Empirical software engineering case on approaches to handling multiple versions, one file with ifs or several versions of program
I face the situation of having programs doing sets of requirements where this is substantial overlap. The obvious example, is a software firm supporting multiple customers that have similar but ...
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Git Flow best practice for quarantine snapshot to staging environments (dev, test, prod)?
I have a CI pipeline that creates snapshot artifacts with constant version numbers after each commit to the development branch. Then the snapshots are deployed to the stages (dev, test) sequentially ...
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How to go about version numbers in a C# solution
My current situation: I would like to apply this to a solution containing multiple projects (one executable and different libraries) in C#. Additionally, I have a project that packs the executable, ...
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Is there any benefit/viability to sharing models across API versions that have differing schemas
I have been asked to get involved with a Team that is currently having delivery issues for various reasons. During my review I came across an acceptance criteria on a user story; If you call v1 of ...
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Is there a name for this partially ordered versioning scheme?
Versions are on the form: x.y.z.[..] Where these letters are numbers and there are arbitrarily many of them. The first version is 1. The next one is 2. The only time when you branch out to the next ...
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