diff --git a/release_tag.pl b/release_tag.pl
deleted file mode 100755
index 4eecdba..0000000
--- a/release_tag.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-open my $fh, "<", "version/version.go" || die "oops";
-while (my $l =  <$fh>) {
-    if ($l =~ m/const Tag = "(.+)"/) {
-        $tag = $1;
-        system ('git', 'tag', '-a', $tag, '-m', "version $tag for release") ;
-        die "could not tag?\n" if $? != 0;
-        system ('git', 'push', 'origin', $tag);
-        die "could not push tag?\n" if $? != 0;
-        exit 0;
-    }
-}
-
-die "no version in version/version.go?\n";