Program Versioning - Question for all

[Phenglai]

Howdy everyone,

I wanted to try and get a little discussion going here about you versioning of software and keeping track of it. About 35% of the software I write stays in house but the rest goes outside the company for sale.

I version my software like so: 1.2.5

My questions are:

1. When you upgrade your software, how often do you change the version number?

2. When you upgrade, do you keep all the existing code and copy it to a new folder to keep track of all the versions of the code?

3. How do you document the revisions, in the program or externally in a document?

4. Do you ship the revisions with the software or keep them for your own records?

I am basically trying to find out how everyone else does this to see how close I am to everyone else and to see if there is some sort of standard. I incremement the version with every patch and document the fix in an external text file. I dont copy my code with each revision but have recentl needed to look at some older code but have since upgrade the code to a new version and have been thinking about starting to copy my code with each revision. I know that would get kinda hairy, but with HD's today, space is really not that big of a deal.

Anyway, there it is, just curious to how you guys version your stuff. I know its not a direct VB questions but I searched the forums and could not find anything close to this topic so I will try and start it here.

Thanks,

Jerel