[Bioperl-l] $VERSION into each file?

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:29:24 +0000 (GMT)


On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:
> > 
> > I remember that Jason wanted $Id$ line into every module for easy version
> > tracking. Should that now before the release be used to put a
> > 
> > $VERSION = 0.7
> > 
> > line into every module? I've found it very useful  when perl modules have
> > it (CPAN updates rely on it).  Or does the use of bundle to distribute
> > bioperl modules make this line useless?
> > 
> 
> I don't know, nor do I have a strong view about $VERSION. Jason,
> Ewan, Chris?

I have no experience of this. Do we need it in every ,odule? in which case
 thats a real pain maintenance wise. Hilmar ..... your call ...

(french keyboards are insane ....)


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