Re: CVS and Perl

[Matthew Persico]

"Larry Jones" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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> Matthew Persico writes:
> >
> > I hate cvs import, primarily because of the 1.1.1.1 branch. Seems to me
I
> > should be able to say "No, No, No, I am not importing someone else's
> > sources, I'm just initing a new project. use 1.1 instead!" Sigh.
>
> For the umpteenth time, revision numbers are for CVS internal use only.
> Just ignore them.  1.1.1.1 vs 1.1 is completely irrelevant.
>

Yes, we should all be using tags. However, it is much safer to do

## WARNING, UNTESTED CODE FROM MEMORY:::
($VERSION) = '$Revision$ =~ s/\$Revision: (.*)\$/$1/;

or something like that than remember to update the number each time you
release a Perl module since $VERSION is a critical part of 'make dist'. And
1.1.1.1 is a bad number for Perl versions. It's not a showstopper, it is
just annoying.


> -Larry Jones
>
> I take it there's no qualifying exam to be a Dad. -- Calvin
>