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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 3970d6d..3a844da 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1432,7 +1432,9 @@ Project supports the following keyword arguments. - `version`: which is a free form string describing the version of this project. You can access the value in your Meson build files - with `meson.project_version()`. + with `meson.project_version()`. Since 0.57.0 this can also be a + `File` object pointing to a file that contains exactly one line of + text. ### run_command() diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/versionfile.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/versionfile.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6071f2c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/versionfile.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +## Project version can be specified with a file + +Meson can be instructed to load project's version string from an +external file like this: + +```meson +project('foo', 'c' version: files('VERSION')) +``` + +The version file must contain exactly one line of text and that will +be set as the project's version. If the line ends in a newline +character, it is removed. |