Product Versioning Scheme Followed by Nelsoft

For the web system, POS, and Autosync versioning:

• follow semantic versioning with additional 1 digit (4) on the left for the core version.
  • "Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
    MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
    MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
    PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.
    Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format"

For the database versioning

• only 2 digits will be used for the database since any changes here is a major change.
• to verify if the database has customizations the dev can opt to do 1 of the following:
  • use mysqldbcompare.exe
  • check the nelsoft-db repository if there is a branch for the client.
  • major changes to the database version will be made if the following updates are done:
  • new tables on existing transactions
  • modification on columns for the tables under these major transactions
    
    • purchase receive
    • sales
    • purchase order
    • stock delivery
    • stock request
    • inventory adjust
    • minor modifications otherwise

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