An option or subcommand that shows only the version number

[nacho4d]

I think we need an option/subcommand to show only the version number and exit with 0 status.
This command will become handy when submitting bugs. Users ideally should mention the version they are using and having problems with.

xchtmlreport -v is already taken so xchtmlreport --version ?

[tylervick]

+1 to this - I also think we need a way to unify versioning between git tags and the hardcoded string in the swift file.

I'm not really sure of a good way to do this - SPM/mint/etc. uses tags, whereas the --version command would need some way of updating the string (maybe via resources/some other CD job)

Also, this is a good enough reason to replace -v with something like --debug or --log-level.

[nacho4d]

Yeah! I agree with your suggestion totally.I think updating the hardcoded version string to be always in sync with the tag is something we need.

I imagine a manually triggered CD job that:

• Requires an input like "2.5.0" or "v2.5.0" or "version 2.5.0"
• Then, input will be cleaned and converted to "2.5.0" to maintain uniformity in all future releases (or fail if string is not in the expected format)
• Update the swift file with sed command or something
• Commit
• Create a tag
• Push commit and tag directly
• (Then current script will realize about the pushed tag and make a release :) )

[nacho4d]

Do you think it is good we do this in next branch?

[tylervick]

Yeah - especially if we modify the current -v flag I think it makes sense to put this in next to denote a breaking change. It also is easier to implement there when ArgumentParser is used.

I'm surprised that SPM doesn't have a solution for this.. But yeah a CD job like you outlined would make sense. Maybe a VERSION file that can be read at compile time and referenced/updated according to the current tag.

Having a central release job would work since we could do this and other things like update the homebrew repo and whatever else