[RESOLVED] Version standard?

[DigiRev]

I'm making a class for version numbers (Major, Minor, Revision, and Build properties) and I am wondering if there is any "standard"/RFC or something that version numbers follow.

[RobDog888]

Maybe try searching ISO and ANSI sites for some guidelines or standards in numbering your release versions.

[RhinoBull]

What would be the benefit of using that class? :curious:

[RobDog888]

Good point as I was thinking that too since the App object already contains that information. I answered on the grounds of what woud be the guidelines of incrementing from a revision, minor or major numbering.

[DigiRev]

It's not really supposed to be useful.

The App object only has Major, Minor, and Revision and not Build, and is also completely useless in the project I am making...because this won't be for a program's version it will be for a protocol version which is sent along with TCP packets. Versions need to be compared and having a class module that handles this all itself just makes this part of the coding easier.

Edit: I never found an RFC for it on the ISO/ANSI site (way too many results to search through) but just ended up using a Type Integer for Major/Minor/Revision and Build since that is what the App object uses. And I also put an Alpha/Beta thing in there...

I guess I'll just mark this resolved...

[RobDog888]

If this was .NET then you would have access to the Build very easily. Or even extend the class to add your own properties for beta or whatever.

For VB 6 you could write a wrapper class that encapsulates the App objects 3 properties for this and add your own properties but this will be only for the App as a whole unless you also added properties for each of your classes that you want to version.