Versions vs. Versioning in the Code Versioning has existed ever since software began. And for a half century, the process of creating binaries has required...
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Versioning has existed ever since software began. And for a half century, the process of creating binaries has required the existence of version information. Around the turn of the millennium, as updates, patches, bug fixes, and software upgrades started coming faster and in even greater numbers the habit of placing these version text files inside the code continued without much industry reflection on just how dreadful an idea this really is.
