Hello world, It was easy to miss this in my last message[1] to the "Announcing cvs_deploy.module" thread, so I'm starting a new one... The only reason we ever recommended people add: version = "$Name$" to the .info files they checked into CVS was for the convenience of the power-users who deploy from CVS. These people should just use the new cvs_deploy.module[2] instead. This line has caused lots of trouble and confusion for lots of people. I'm sorry I ever suggested it, and wish I had just written and released the cvs_deploy.module right when we were adding the version information to the modules page in D5. Oh well, live and learn... I've edited the 4.7.x -> 5.x upgrade docs[3] and the handbook page about writing .info files[4] to reflect the new best practice:
version (Optional) The version string will ordinarily be added by drupal.org when a release is created and a tarball packaged. However, if your module is not being hosted on the drupal.org infrastructure, you can give your module whatever version string makes sense. Users getting their modules directly from CVS will not have a version string, since the .info files checked into CVS do not define a version. These users are encouraged to use the CVS deploy [2] module to provide accurate version strings for the admin/build/ modules page for modules in directories checked out directly from CVS.
In the past (before the CVS deploy module existed), it was recommended to use this:
version = "$Name$" However, this led to much confusion and is no longer recommended. If you are a module developer, and you already have the above line in your .info files checked into the Drupal CVS repository, you should remove that line. Please let me know if you have any questions or complaints.
Thanks, -Derek (dww) [1] http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2007-June/024698.html [2] http://drupal.org/project/cvs_deploy [3] http://drupal.org/node/64279 [4] http://drupal.org/node/101009