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Ok being completely new to making addons how do people go about picking a addon version number ?

That's really up to you. A lot of the WowAce add-ons, having been on the SVN for all their lives, use a revision number and sometimes a major version number. The major version number in this case usually only changes for complete rewrites of the add-on/library. The revision number comes straight from the SVN and increments every time any change is committed, so it's an easy way to keep track.

Most add-ons that aren't kept in source control use their own versioning system. This sometimes takes the form of Major.Minor (e.g. v1.1), but each author does his/her own thing.

Ahh i understand now. Thanks

The Ace addons were confusing me the most since they were always 85495.2 or 75894 And so on.

Thanks for the link. I will read it now :)

Cant get bored with something so fun to learn about ;)

I tend to make my version numbers by using the current TOC #Interface number. Something like v20400-1, v20400-2, v30000-1, etc. I find it nice since it tells ppl that the addon is made for a particular version but it does confuse ppl when you don't release after every TOC change so it's certainly not perfect.

I use the current WoW version (IE 2.4.3) with the revision number tacked on to the end. /shrug

I like the " Major.Minor.bugfix " method. Bump the major when you want ALL your users to update. Bump the minor when there are feature changes, but in effect breaks nothing requiring no one to update if they don't want to. bump the bugfix when taging to indicate that it was a less important change.