In this case "backup" is a Git repository and the Git history is the authoritative file history, so tracking versions at file granularity in the files seems superfluous to me.

Does perl-reversion -bump also increment $VERSION in files that were not changed at all? That would be a problem for me, since it would create many "same file, only different" versions of most of the files in WARC — I tend to only change a few files to implement the next step on the roadmap, then make another release to get at least CPAN Testers feedback.

Copying files between distributions is more of a concern to me. On one hand, that is perfectly allowed under the licensing, but on the other, it violates encapsulation and sets (other people) up for future maintenance problems. Is this really that common in the CPAN community? If so, I may need to abandon the idea of applying SPOT to distribution versioning and put unique $VERSION literals in each module.

In reply to Re^2: Using a Single Point of Truth for $VERSION in a distribution? by jcb
in thread Using a Single Point of Truth for $VERSION in a distribution? by jcb

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