[development] version = "$Name$" considered harmful in .info files

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Derek Wright <drupal at dwwright.net>:

>
> On Jun 15, 2007, at 1:53 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
>
>> That's probably a good idea.
>
> I checked out a whole copy of contrib to test my perl/find on it.  I  
> notice that there are a decent number of modules that do other things 
>  with version, besides $Name$.
>
> Do people think I should just nuke all version strings checked into  
> CVS in .info files, no matter what?
>

If the version variable is replaced on packaging why worry about doing 
anything at all with contrib modules?  If version contains $Name$ when 
installed we should know that it was obtained via CVS.  If $Name$ is 
harmful then something else could be suggested, like CVS.  So if 
version is containing CVS and someone complains we can let them know 
that they installed it incorrectly.  I don't think that anyone but the 
module maintainer should modify the .info file for the project.  Your 
perl script should only modify the core modules.

Earnie