adding version file for flake builds

[luxus]

i would expect Hyprland --version would display the version (and last commit) but it shows me no error.. just the help

[vaxerski]

hyprctl version??

[luxus]

~~> hyprctl version Hyprland, built from branch at commit dirty (). flags: (if any) debug

i use the nixos flake so it should report 0.9.1?

[vaxerski]

it reports nothing because you're building with meson and @fufexan has not yet added versioning for meson. It only works through CMake. Furthermore I think it's impossible to tell through the flake. Fufexan should know more.

[luxus]

thanks for answering, i guessed it has todo with the manual build situation

[fufexan]

Versioning does work in meson as well since #321.

The problem here is that the flake has no way of determining that git info, since it strips out .git.

We should probably switch to using a version file which the flake and everything else can then check.

[luxus]

if we have a version file we could update the version in the flake automaticly https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/3947fe9e9f8fb2912b969a20fbbec3f2ab62cef0/flake.nix#L36

[viperML]

Speaking of that string, wasn't it supposed to be automatically updated?

[fufexan]

It was, but the GH runner doesn't get the git info properly and instead replaces the version with "". So I disabled it and then forgot about it.

[fufexan]

I'll try to make a release action with the actor set as Vaxry, that'll solve our problems.

[vaxerski]

@fufexan any updates here or should I close this

[fufexan]

You can close it for now.