Make the version number appear only once in the codebase

[brson]

The string "0.6" appears 35 times in our tree and we don't have an obvious way to eliminate this duplication. Something like include_lit! might do the job.

[catamorphism]

Nominating for milestone 5, production-ready

[emberian]

This is no longer an issue, it seems, as the version number isn't anywhere and we have an include_str and include_bin. Closing.

[huonw]

This doesn't seem to be completely solved.

> git grep '0.8-pre'
Makefile.in:142:CFG_RELEASE = 0.8-pre
doc/po/rust.md.pot:9:"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
doc/po/rustpkg.md.pot:9:"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
doc/po/tutorial-borrowed-ptr.md.pot:9:"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
doc/po/tutorial-container.md.pot:9:"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
doc/po/tutorial-ffi.md.pot:9:"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
doc/po/tutorial-macros.md.pot:9:"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
doc/po/tutorial-tasks.md.pot:9:"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
doc/po/tutorial.md.pot:9:"Project-Id-Version: Rust 0.8-pre\n"
src/etc/kate/rust.xml:10:<language name="Rust" version="0.8-pre" kateversion="2.4" section="Sources" extensions="*.rs$
src/libextra/extra.rs:24:       vers = "0.8-pre",
src/librust/rust.rs:16:       vers = "0.8-pre",
src/librustc/front/std_inject.rs:21:static STD_VERSION: &'static str = "0.8-pre";
src/librustc/front/test.rs:284:        let mi = attr::mk_name_value_item_str(@"vers", @"0.8-pre");
src/librustc/rustc.rs:12:       vers = "0.8-pre",
src/librustdoc/rustdoc.rs:14:       vers = "0.8-pre",
src/librusti/rusti.rs:62:       vers = "0.8-pre",
src/librustpkg/rustpkg.rs:14:       vers = "0.8-pre",
src/libstd/std.rs:52:       vers = "0.8-pre",
src/libsyntax/syntax.rs:17:       vers = "0.8-pre",
src/test/run-pass/use.rs:16:extern mod bar(name = "std", vers = "0.8-pre");

[z0w0]

With the issue of course being that you can't have an include_str! macro within the attribute tags.

[graydon]

just a bug, removing milestone/nomination.

[graydon]

Note: when we have rustpkg building rustc, the number of occurrences will drop.

[metajack]

Bug triage.

Now that we have crate_id, rustpkg is not going to solve this problem either.

[steveklabnik]

Is this still an issue?

[alexcrichton]

It is indeed, our version is sprayed everywhere throughout the crate_id attributes and such.

[steveklabnik]

$ git grep "1\.0\.0"
RELEASES.md:Version 1.0.0-alpha (January 2015)
mk/main.mk:CFG_RELEASE_NUM=1.0.0
src/doc/trpl/installing-rust.md:rustc 1.0.0-nightly (f11f3e7ba 2015-01-04 20:02:14 +0000)
src/etc/kate/rust.xml:<language name="Rust" version="1.0.0" kateversion="2.4" section="Sources" extensions="*.rs" mimetype="text/x-rust" priority="15">
$

Was this solved by CFG_RELEASE_NUM? /cc @brson

[steveklabnik]

I believe that it is, closing until I hear otherwise.