in reply to PAUSE problem

As a professional Configuration Manager I say always roll the version number. That is what they are there for. I have never understood this developer notion of trying to avoid incrementing version numbers.

In your particular case If someone had downloaded the bodgy version and you did manage to insert your fixed version with the same version number then how would your victim's auto update software know that the release had been fixed?

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Re: Re: PAUSE problem
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 17, 2004 at 21:54 UTC

    I have never understood this developer notion of trying to avoid incrementing version numbers

    Oh thats easy. We are numerically inclined us developers. So when we see 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.7 we immediately want to know what the hell happened to 2.2.2, 2.2.5 and 2.2.6. And when the answers is "well er, I, ah, well, you know screwed, ah, er, the tarball" we are inclined to think the less of the poor chap involved, even when secretly we know weve all done it at least once or twice ourselves.

    But you are of course correct. Bumping the version number is the right way to procede, but sometimes pshychology outweighs logic.


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