On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:13:17PM +0200, nadim khemir wrote: > I like to generate a distribution automatically including the version number
VCS identifiers have very little value outside of their context. For example, knowing that you are now on revision 3000 is useless -- it's much more meaningful to know that you've released 2.0, especially if the previous version was (e.g.) 1.7. That's why tags are valuable; they map human-significant identifiers to vcs-significant ones. You might like Perl::Version's perl-reversion program. -bump is for run-of-the-mill releases, -bump-<whatever> for more major changes. hdp.
