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<span id="design.mps.version"></span><h1>18. Software versions<a class="headerlink" href="#software-versions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
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<h2>18.1. Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><span class="target" id="design.mps.version.intro"></span><a class="mpstag reference internal" href="#design.mps.version.intro">.intro:</a> This is the design of the support in the MPS for
describing and inspecting versions.</p>
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<h2>18.2. History<a class="headerlink" href="#history" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><span class="target" id="design.mps.version.hist.0"></span><a class="mpstag reference internal" href="#design.mps.version.hist.0">.hist.0:</a> Incomplete document. David Jones, 1998-08-19.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="design.mps.version.hist.1"></span><a class="mpstag reference internal" href="#design.mps.version.hist.1">.hist.1:</a> Converted from MMInfo database design document.
Richard Brooksby, 2002-06-07.</p>
<p><span class="target" id="design.mps.version.hist.2"></span><a class="mpstag reference internal" href="#design.mps.version.hist.2">.hist.2:</a> Converted to reStructuredText. Gareth Rees,
2013-03-11.</p>
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<h2>18.3. Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#overview" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><span class="target" id="design.mps.version.overview"></span><a class="mpstag reference internal" href="#design.mps.version.overview">.overview:</a> There are three different sorts of version under
consideration:</p>
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<li>versions of the (MPS) library used (linked with);</li>
<li>versions of the interface used (header files in C) when compiling
the client&#8217;s program; and</li>
<li>versions of the documentation used when the client was writing the
program.</li>
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<p><span class="target" id="design.mps.version.overview.split"></span><a class="mpstag reference internal" href="#design.mps.version.overview.split">.overview.split:</a> The design is split accordingly. See
design.mps.version-library for the design of a system for
determining the version of the library one is using. And other
non-existent documents for the others.</p>
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