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Subject:Re: Version vs. Revision From:"Wittel, Teresa J." <WITTTJ -at- NCSLINK -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:42:00 -0700
Suzanne Lee suggested (below) that using version could be confusing to
the users if the software didn't match the documentation. I can see her
point. Our documentation has a version number, followed by a release
number and a fix number. (Ex: 3.01.03) It always matches the code
version numbers. How can you keep track of which documentation supports
which code without matching the version numbers?
BTW, I have no aversion to using the revision system and even have used
a combination of version and revision to describe a release. (Ex:
Version 3.0, Rev. A) It all depends on what my employer has developed to
track the products.
>Kevin asked:
>> what was used more: Revision or Version.
>>
>> For Example:
>>
>> Document A, Rev. A, B, C, etc.
>> Document A, Version 1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, etc.
>I have no idea which is more common, but we used to use version for our
>manuals, until we found out that it caused users got confused because it
>didn't match the software version (software version 8.0, document version
>6.0).
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