I'm in search of a module (or technique) to keep track of the software/release version that a drupal installation is running. Not the drupal version running the site (e.g 7.12) but of the implemented site itself. Exactly like this stackexchange site does on the footer (currently: rev 2012.4.5.2127).

I need a structured way to keep track of this data (so a plain text block on the footer will not do) because I'll be needing to be accessing this info from other systems as well.

Currently I've solved it by using an entry in the variable table. To set it:

drush vset --always-set release "1.0.4" 

and to get it:

drush vget release 

So, is there another (probably better) way of handling this?

thanks

I'm in search of a module (or technique) to keep track of the software/release version that a Drupal installation is running. I am not talking about the Drupal version running the site (e.g 7.12) but of the implemented site itself, exactly like any Stack Exchange site does on the footer (currently: rev 2012.4.5.2127).

I need a structured way to keep track of this data (so a plain text block on the footer will not do) because I'll need to access this information from other systems as well.

Currently I've solved it by using a persistent variable that I handle with Drush.

# Set it. drush vset --always-set release "1.0.4" # Get it. drush vget release 

Is there another (probably better) way of handling this?