Tuesday, September 18, 2007

When you look at the version number on your favorite software you might ask why all the numbers?!

At dovetail we split up our numbers and give marketing control of the first 2.  So novo version 5.2 is what we will advertise and talk about when discussing features.  The rest of the numbers are for technical support and link back to a tracking system that we use to manage the source code.  These numbers are referred to as the "sub" version numbers.  In the case of novo 5.2.145 the 145 relates to the "revision" number in our subversion system.  That allows us to know exactly what version of every program file was used to make that release and therefore allows us to support that specific version.

I won't get into the 4th digit but suffice it to say that one means something to the programmers too!

Have a wonderful day!

--Mark

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