[Feature Request]: Show version string in terminal at startup and in the about box with 'copy to clipboard' button.

[usbrandon]

What would you like to happen?

We need to help people help us. They can do this by being precise about the Hop version or Snapshot build they report issues on.

We need each CLI command to support --version flags that output the current Hop version being used.

If the Hop version is currently under development use the SNAPSHOT-yyyMMdd format, otherwise the current release version, example 2.2.0.

When showing the current version on the About Box in the GUI, there should be a dedicated button on the dialog "Copy version to clipboard," which will only copy that detail appropriate for pasting in Github issues asking for the version. There can be another copy to the clipboard button that grabs the rest of ultra-detailed libraries, variables etc, but we just need a simple way to let folks communicate their version.

Issue Priority

Priority: 2

Issue Component

Component: Hop Gui

[nadment]

I leave the ticket open for a SNAPSHOT-yyyyMMdd version format

[campen]

I would like to have the version info available as a variable that can be utilized in various ways when running workflows/pipelines (like writing the version to the log upon start of the workflow). Should this be a separate ticket?

[nadment]

We should systematically add a line at the beginning of the log with the version when we execute a pipeline or workflow, without having to use a variable.

2023/02/13 22:32:21 - Hop - Pipeline opened.
2023/02/13 22:32:21 - Hop - Launching pipeline [expression_test]...
2023/02/13 22:32:21 - Hop - Implementation version 2.4.0-SNAPSHOT (2023-02-13 08.50.52)
2023/02/13 22:32:21 - Hop - Started the pipeline execution.

[nadment]

But it is also possible to define a system variable if needed, do you think it's useful?
hop.specification.version=2.4
HOP_VERSION=2.4.0-SNAPSHOT (2023-02-13 08.50.52)

[campen]

Yes, it would be useful also.