Apex version control: what are "good practices"?

I have made my first Apex application that is been tested right now. Once this version is released, I should want to have a stable and robust versioning system for this application. I don't have any experience with this. So any info about this issue would be very welcome. Are there some good practice rules I should follow? What are things to watch out for? Etc... Some things I'd like to be able to do:
1. Have version numbers assigned to the application
2. Have update scripts to go from one version to the next. (If possible have update scripts to go to the latest version, whatever the current version is.)
3. Rollback to a previous version of the application
4. See te differences between different versions of the appliction
I also would like the same for the database schema.
Any help would be very welcome...

Here how I do it:
Each Apex application has a unique version number in the format Major Release Number / Minor Release Number / Patch Release Number e.g.
Version 1.3.2
Each object and build script are separate files, with their own version number and stored in a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) e.g. Subversion. The version number, author, description, date, change history are commented into the header of each script.
Each Release on CD is also given a unique sequential number so that different releases of the same version can be tracked through test. Each CD Release will usually consist of an application export, object scripts and a build script. The CD image is also checked into the CMDB.
If an application is going to distributed as a packaged application or installed on multiple environments then each release is a full build. For single instances, the builds are incremental.
Cheers
Shunt

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QTimers,
I post movies edited in FCPro 3 on a .Mac web site for the in-laws. They are on a DSL line. When I export the finished video from FCP to a QT movie, I face a vast array of choices that I don't understand. I can choose from many video codecs, and I have to choose a key frame rate, and a size (I chose 320x240). The movie I did today came in at 27Mb, and it's only a minute in length!
Can someone recommend some settings that will not create huge files?
Thanks.
BC
BC

So long as the recipients have QT7 try the H.264 codec. I have a couple of movies which I've exported at 384x288 (half size PAL) at 256kbps video data rate, 128kbps audio, full frame rate (25fps) with key frames every 50 frames and, while they're not absolutely perfect, they are very acceptible. One is 5.5 minutes and is 15Mb long, the other is 1 minute long and is 2.8Mb. They'll play over a 512kbps connection so long as the .Mac servers are behaving themselves (they're rather slow at times). H.264 /does/ take a long time to encode the video though - my five minute movie took about 35 minutes to encode on a dual 2.3GHz G5 directly from Final Cut Express.
You could also try the MP4 and Sorenson 3 codecs but you're not going to get anything like the same quality at the same data rates (at least not with what comes as standard with QT).
It all seems to be something of a black art doesn't it? I started doing this only a few weeks ago. At first I fiddled around more or less at random before approaching it more sensibly using short clips and changing one thing at a time. Eventually, I arrived at settings which satisfied me.
Best of luck!

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