use Perl

• For those playing at home (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  Take heed of this line from perldoc perlmod:

  $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 2.21 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r }; # must be all one line, for MakeMaker

  You still gotta roll a major revision at least once each 100 minor revisions though. {grin}

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  • Randal L. Schwartz
  • Stonehenge
  • Re:For those playing at home (Score:1)

    by Dom2 (2981)

    Bleargh. I like to keep the VERSION numbers to myself, and specify the module version number as a whole entity in the Makefile.PL.

    -Dom
    • Re:For those playing at home (Score:2)

      by merlyn (47)

      If you don't mind a lot of manual work where automation can help, go right ahead.

      Me, I've got better things to do with my time.

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      • Randal L. Schwartz
      • Stonehenge
      • Re:For those playing at home (Score:1)

        by Dom2 (2981)

        It's not so much that, it's the idea that CVS/RCS revision id's aren't necessarily the best things to use as the version for your module (perhaps distribution would be a better term than module) as a whole anyway. I'd rather bump the version number when I want to, not when I correct a typo in the POD.

        I've got a full on woody for automation everywhere else. :-)

        -Dom