[Slackbuilds-users] What if we `source`d the version number

[Andrzej Telszewski]

Jan 4, 2022 10:11:00 PM Klaatu <klaatu at mixedsignals.ml>:

> Why do we define the VERSION for a package in two separate files?
>  
> What if we replaced this line in foo.SlackBuild:
> VERSION={VERSION:-0.0.1}
>  
> with this instead:
> . ./$PRGNAM.info
>  
> The VERSION variable would get imported from a consolidated location (the .info file).
>  
> It seems to make more sense to me, and it makes trivial upgrades (the ones where I go in and just bump a version number to something I want to build) a one-file task.
>  
> Thoughts?

You can source .info before executing .SlackBuild to get the same effect. No changes needed. :-)

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