Re: Need advice on version numbering convention

2006-04-06 Thread Man-Chi Leung
hi all, thanks very very much on the advice it is very useful ~manchi On Apr 5, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Brian Topping wrote: I would echo Eric's sentiments, with a caveat. A lot of smaller (in house, no exposed APIs) projects can be helped by starting with build numbers taken directly from the

Re: Need advice on version numbering convention

2006-04-05 Thread Yann Le Du
Hi Man-Chi, About the Maven conventions, you can check out the first paragraph of http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Dependency+Mediation+and+Conflict+Resolution HTH, - Yann On 4/5/06, Eric Redmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, sorry to dissapoint, but I'm not an expert... I am, however,

Re: Need advice on version numbering convention

2006-04-05 Thread Brian Topping
I would echo Eric's sentiments, with a caveat. A lot of smaller (in house, no exposed APIs) projects can be helped by starting with build numbers taken directly from the subversion revision ID. This is a monotonically increasing integer, and by using that for your release ID, there's

Need advice on version numbering convention

2006-04-04 Thread Man-Chi Leung
hi, sorry that it is not a direct question on Maven usage, but I really hope to improve my Release management process with Maven. I would like to understand more regarding version numbering convention, perhaps, the most commonly practice in Java community. 1) for subversion source

Re: Need advice on version numbering convention

2006-04-04 Thread Eric Redmond
Well, sorry to dissapoint, but I'm not an expert... I am, however, full of opinions! This is how I tend to number, and it works well for me: Skip bugfix numbering unless you are working on a major project. Seriously. It gets very burdonsome to handle multiple minor edits on smaller projects,