diff -ur --exclude=.svn parrot/MANIFEST parrot.new/MANIFEST
--- parrot/MANIFEST	2009-02-24 18:32:13.000000000 +0100
+++ parrot.new/MANIFEST	2009-02-24 18:37:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 ChangeLog                                                   []
 Configure.pl                                                []
 DEPRECATED.pod                                              []
-DEVELOPING                                                  []
 DONORS.pod                                                  []
 LICENSE                                                     [main]doc
 MANIFEST                                                    []
@@ -330,6 +329,8 @@
 config/gen/makefiles/tge.in                                 []
 config/gen/opengl.pm                                        []
 config/gen/parrot_include.pm                                []
+config/gen/parrot_spec.pm                                   []
+config/gen/parrot_spec/parrot_spec.in                       []
 config/gen/platform.pm                                      []
 config/gen/platform/aix/asm.s                               []
 config/gen/platform/ansi/dl.c                               []
@@ -2003,7 +2004,6 @@
 lib/Pod/Simple/TranscodeSmart.pm                            []
 lib/Pod/Simple/XHTML.pm                                     []
 lib/Pod/Simple/XMLOutStream.pm                              []
-parrot.spec                                                 []
 parrotbug                                                   []
 runtime/parrot/dynext/README                                []doc
 runtime/parrot/include/README                               []doc
diff -ur --exclude=.svn parrot/config/auto/revision.pm parrot.new/config/auto/revision.pm
--- parrot/config/auto/revision.pm	2009-02-24 18:31:59.000000000 +0100
+++ parrot.new/config/auto/revision.pm	2009-02-24 18:38:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@
     }
 
     $conf->data->set( revision => $revision );
+    if (  $conf->data->get('DEVEL') ) {
+        $conf->data->set(_DEVEL_REVISION => '_devel_r' . $revision,);
+    }
+    else {
+        $conf->data->set(_DEVEL_REVISION => '');
+    }
 
     if ( defined $revision and $revision >= 1 ) {
         $self->set_result("r$revision");
diff -ur --exclude=.svn parrot/config/gen/makefiles/root.in parrot.new/config/gen/makefiles/root.in
--- parrot/config/gen/makefiles/root.in	2009-02-24 18:32:00.000000000 +0100
+++ parrot.new/config/gen/makefiles/root.in	2009-02-24 18:40:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -2162,18 +2162,18 @@
 ###############################################################################
 
 release : MANIFEST MANIFEST.generated
-	[ -d parrot-$(VERSION) ] || ln -s $(CUR_DIR) parrot-$(VERSION)
+	[ -d parrot-@VERSION@@_DEVEL_REVISION@ ] || ln -s $(CUR_DIR) parrot-@VERSION@@_DEVEL_REVISION@
 	@$(RM_F) MANIFEST.real
 	mv MANIFEST MANIFEST.real
 	grep -v DEVELOPING MANIFEST.real > MANIFEST
-	$(PERL) -lane 'print"parrot-$(VERSION)/$$F[0]"unless!length||/#/' MANIFEST | \
-    tar -zcv -T - -f parrot-$(VERSION).tar.gz
+	$(PERL) -lane 'print"parrot-@VERSION@@_DEVEL_REVISION@/$$F[0]"unless!length||/#/' MANIFEST | \
+    tar -zcv -T - -f parrot-@VERSION@@_DEVEL_REVISION@.tar.gz
 	mv MANIFEST.real MANIFEST
-	rm parrot-$(VERSION)
+	rm parrot-@VERSION@@_DEVEL_REVISION@
 
 rpms : release
 	mkdir -p rpmbuild/SOURCES rpmbuild/SPEC rpmbuild/BUILD rpmbuild/RPMS rpmbuild/SRPMS
-	cp parrot-$(VERSION).tar.gz rpmbuild/SOURCES
+	cp parrot-@VERSION@@_DEVEL_REVISION@.tar.gz rpmbuild/SOURCES
 	cp parrot.spec rpmbuild/SPEC
 	echo '%_topdir '`pwd`'/rpmbuild' > .rpmmacros
 	HOME=`pwd`; rpmbuild -ba parrot.spec
Only in parrot.new/config/gen: parrot_spec
Only in parrot.new/config/gen: parrot_spec.pm
diff -ur --exclude=.svn parrot/lib/Parrot/Configure/Step/List.pm parrot.new/lib/Parrot/Configure/Step/List.pm
--- parrot/lib/Parrot/Configure/Step/List.pm	2009-02-24 18:31:47.000000000 +0100
+++ parrot.new/lib/Parrot/Configure/Step/List.pm	2009-02-24 18:41:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
     gen::makefiles
     gen::platform
     gen::config_pm
+    gen::parrot_spec
 );
 
 sub get_steps_list { return @steps; }
Only in parrot: parrot.spec