GoVersion      

A (very) simple go package for handling semver compliant application versions.

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Features

• Immutable application version, set via linker flags.
• Values from runtime/debug available.
• Check for updates using public GitHub release/tag information.

Usage

Somewhere in your application, be sure that this package is imported:

import (
  _ "github.com/neaas/go-version"
)

Configuration

Set each configuration value using the linker flags as described below:

go build -ldflags "-X github.com/neaas/go-version.VARIABLE=VALUE" .

Variable	Description	Default Value
version	The semver compliant version of the application being built.	v0.0.0+unversioned
repositoryOwner	The owner of the GitHub repository for the application.	neaas
repositoryName	The name of the application's GitHub repository.	go-version
versionType	The method in which versions are defined for the repository (release, tag, none)	tag