I can say I was not so clever as you were. I made a script to be used when I bundled my distributions together. It would read the MANIFEST for files in the lib/ directory. From those files it would do a search and replace for,

our $VERSION = '(\d\.\d{2})';

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and for POD, 
This documentation refers to B\<.+\> version (\d\.\d{2})

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(I am sure that this not 100% correct, I am basing it off-memory).

The script allowed me to enter one value and then update the version number for all the files in my distribution. It got tedious to update 20+ .pm and .pod files all the time.

In reply to Re: Don’t Repeat Your… version number by Herkum
in thread Don’t Repeat Your… version number by Aristotle

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