How do you number releases of a program?

[zedox]

Would love to know when you should call a program "Version 1" and when its appropriate to change it to version 1.1, version 2.0 ect...

Ta!

[ripken204]

basically whatever you want, it all depends on how many updates to it you plan on doing.

you could get out to the thousandths spot if you wanted

ex: 1.120,1.130

[cluberti]

I've always considered a "major" app release to be a full dot release (1.0, 2.0, etc). If I feel that the application has enough new or changed functionality, or I've quashed a large number of bugs since the last release (or both), I consider it a major release. A small feature update or change release is generally a point release (1.x, 2.x, etc), and a bugfix-only release is generally the point+n release (1.x.n, 2.x.n, etc).

It's generally whatever you want to do - there are no hard and fast rules (although there are some general consensus) as to how you work with your applications.

[ripken204]

ya ur right, i left that part out. i was talking more about the bugfixes as you mentioned.

major reases are usually 1.0, 2.0,3.0, etc or 1.1,1.2,1.3,etc