Today 09:06:47 am   Hi folks-- I'm looking for a peer-reviewed solutions for managing versions (dll   compatibiity, data formats, etc.).  If they exist, they're pretty   hard to find.   ( FWIW, searches with the terms "version"  or   "versioning" aren't very helpful :-() To date all I've been able to find are ad hoc discussions on matching   a specific version.  Ultimately, I _think_ I'm looking for    1) a base class for a version specification    2) a range for version compatibility    3)a mixin class (with compatibility check methods) for objects   requiring version compatibility. The two use cases I have in mind are:    1) - an application wishes to verify compatibility of a dlopen()'d   module as well as the compatibility of its separately compiled objects.    2) - a decoder wishes to verify compatibility with a data file   being decoded. Have there been any discussions on this topic in the boost domain?   If so, how would I find it? Any one have ideas where else I could look?  Or any useful codewords to search for. Thnx --rich