Re: [FWP] Elegant ways to pick up the RCS revision

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wickline <listbox@wickline.org> writes:

Matthew> returning to an old thread...


Matthew> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
>> $VERSION = (qw$Revision: 1.34 $ )[-1]


Matthew> this topic later came up on the dbi user's list, and Jonathan Leffler
Matthew> came up with the following tweak (in an off-list message)...

Matthew>     our $VERSION = (qw$Revision: 1.10 $ )[-1];

Won't fly on 5.5.3, which many people have installed still.

Matthew>     $ VERSION = eval "v$VERSION";

Nor does this.

The world is not at 5.6.x yet.  Please try to stick to portable
constructs for at *least* the next year.

Matthew>     # now it's the case that: ( v1.10 > v1.2 )
Matthew>     # and it also holds that: ( v1.10 > v1.1 )

Whatever.  Useless prior to 5.6.

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