In a perfect world, version history and version numbering should make sense in linear order, starting from "1" (or "zero", if you're Steve Jobs).
Examples of version renumbering[]
Adobe had previously used "marketing" numbers (such as CS3) to provide a unified alternative to disparate version numbers among various applications within their Creative Suite series. Adobe Creative Cloud has since largely adopted dates ("calendar versioning") for version tracking.
Other examples[]
- Adobe ColdFusion: History (how to do it right: keep it reasonably linear)
- RoboHelp: Version renumbering (how to do it wrong: recursive numbering)
- Premiere Elements: Product history (marketing logic: skipping numbers for bundling consistency)
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (still trying to figure this out)
External links[]
- CalVer Calendar Versioning
- Software versioning at Wikipedia
Articles[]
- What's In a Version Number, Anyway? at Coding Horror (2007-02-15)
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