[development] The value of version in the .info files
Earnie Boyd
earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Dec 21 02:12:26 UTC 2006
Quoting Earl Miles <merlin at 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
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