proper way to name a program

[sail3005]

ok, what is the proper way to get the version of your program, like majorupdatenumber.minorupdatenumber.buildnumber?

if you get to 10 minor updates, is that 1 major update. etc?

What is the real proper way, and how specific should you be?

[sail3005]

example v4.5.12 or something

[SteveCRM]

major.minor.revision

is that what you wanted? :)

[HarryW]

There isn't really a 'proper' way to do it. Usually you would give each build a build number, I guess that's the same as the revision number. When you feel you've made changes deserving of a different version, you increment the minor version, and when you feel you've made major changes, you increment the major version. I guess that's how it goes anyway. I don't think there's really a right/wrong way.

[sail3005]

yeah, i thought it was pretty flexible, at least netscape thinks so. But i was just curious.

[substring]

Usually, the Build number is for fixing existing bugs, fine-tuning stuffs. Minor and Major are just exactly what the name suggest.

Hope this helps.

substring.

[Cybrg641]

In Borland C++ Builder, there is an option where it will automatically increment the build number every time you compile your program. I don't know if VC++ has this, but it might be worth checking out if you have it.

[sail3005]

Cool, i have borland. Where is this option?

[Cybrg641]

Goto Project|Options then click on the Version Info. tab and click on the appropriate checkbox to enable it.

[sail3005]

Thanks a lot