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Version vs Versionitis - What's the difference?

version | versionitis |

As nouns the difference between version and versionitis

is that version is a specific form or variation of something while versionitis is a situation in which there are many different (and possibly incompatible) versions of the same software, file or document.

As a verb version

is to keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

version

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A specific form or variation of something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
  • A translation from one language to another.
  • (obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
  • An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
  • (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
  • (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
  • (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
  • (obsolete, or, medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The version of air into water.

    Synonyms

    * ver,

    See also

    * CVS * revision control * versioning * bible

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    versionitis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing, informal) A situation in which there are many different (and possibly incompatible) versions of the same software, file or document.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)#Detectionhttp://libreofficeaustralia.org/lt/community/blog/planet/20110406/versionitishttp://www.komando.com/downloads/category.aspx?id=9606&page=2http://fppad.com/2008/02/11/suffering-from-versionitis
  • * 1992 , InfoWorld (volume 14, number 33, page 92)
    • This helps companies maintain an honest relationship with the software publisher and protects against versionitis .
  • * 2004 , Joel Henry, Software project management: a real-world guide to success
    • Versionitis exists when the team is using multiple versions of the same software Integration of modules can be a nightmare when a project catches versionitis.
  • * 2011 , Bud E. Smith, Michael McCallister, WordPress in depth (page 455)
    • The Handbook can suffer from versionitis ; at this writing, the Handbook is one release behind the current version of the software, making it out of date in parts.

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