# from Johan Vromans
# on Wednesday 09 July 2008 08:09:
>Now more and more development is migrating towards VCS that do not
>have such a feature (git, svn, hg, ...).
>
>What are the alternatives?
Just use the integer time()?
>Manually updating the version numbers of changed modules before a
>release does not sound appealing to me.
Use the `perl-reversion` tool? Is that too manual?
The build tool should probably do this for you, but does it bump the
version numbers just before rolling the release or several commits
before? Right after a release? When does it commit and tag? What
about the Changes file?
I've been thinking "immediately after a release" is the time to bump the
version -- but what about when you decide that it is a major version
bump? That seems like it would almost always be a 'manual' decision.
Of course, if you're using the $Revision$, that doesn't have
a 'major/minor' number on svn, so it is basically just a slow-moving
version of time(), right?
--Eric
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