Tagging

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:52:32 -0500, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>  
wrote:

> Leandro Lucarella Wrote:
>
>> Speaking of improving the VCS usage, how about tagging?
>
> An easy intermediate step would be to include the SVN revision numbers  
> of Phobos ad Druntime when a release is packaged.  In fact, the  
> makefiles could probably dump this information somewhere and have it  
> built into the libraries, thanks to the mixin file feature.  Maybe I'll  
> add a version string to the Runtime object for this (at least for  
> Druntime).  In Phobos, I guess this could go in std.compiler, though  
> there has to be a better place for it.

How is this easier than tagging?  Tagging is almost a no-op.

-Steve