Quoting Earl Miles <merlin@logrus.com>:
Earnie Boyd wrote:
Based on http://drupal.org/node/101009 the value of version should be $Name$ to allow the packaging system to do the right thing. I am finding values other than $Name$ in info files.
Many developers created their .info files before we had established this standard. Hopefully over time they'll catch up to this.
Hmm... I was thinking I just updated from CVS and found some modules with new info files that did do this? When was the standard established, sometime in November correct? -rw-r--r-- 1 boyde Administ 133 Dec 15 12:47 ./banner/banner.info version = 5.0-dev I'm not meaning to pick on banner just giving a cited example. Many others don't include the version string at all, I suppose that is ok or should it be supplied as stated with ``version = $Head$''? Earnie