[Bioperl-l] $VERSION into each file?

[Jason Stajich]

It's a pain to force this out to every module.  I wanted at least to have
the $Id$ line in the perl code for help debugging when someone sends us
bug reports.  I think the Bundle will make this moot - although I think
we'll get the same messages that Heikki is showing for CPAN.  Could we
at least put it in the Bio::Seq module since that has existed since the
beginning.  Do we know what the official CPAN position is here.

-jason


On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ewan Birney wrote:

> 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 ....)
> 
> 
> > 
> > 	Hilmar
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Jason Stajich
jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
Center for Human Genetics
Duke University Medical Center 
http://www.chg.duke.edu/