The CPAN indexer requires perl modules (and sub-modules) to have a non-descending VERSION number. RCS/CVS $Revision$ has been invaluable for that.
Now more and more development is migrating towards VCS that do not have such a feature (git, svn, hg, ...). What are the alternatives? Manually updating the version numbers of changed modules before a release does not sound appealing to me. I ususally get the advice to build a hook script, etc., but I think this 'problem' should be dealt with at a non-individual level. What are your ideas? -- Johan
