For greater consistency of lifecycle between puppetlabs projects here we change
from using the token @DEVELOPMENT_VERSION@ to using a hard-coded version in
lib/mcollective.rb.

ext/project_data.yaml

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ homepage: 'https://docs.puppetlabs.com/mcollective/'
summary: 'Application Server for hosting Ruby code on any capable middleware'
description: 'The Marionette Collective, e.g. mcollective, is a framework for building server orchestration or parallel job execution systems.'
version_file: 'lib/mcollective.rb'
update_version_file: true
# files and gem_files are space separated lists
files: 'mcollective.init COPYING doc etc lib plugins ext bin install.rb'
# List of packaging related templates to evaluate before the tarball is packed

lib/mcollective.rb

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ module MCollective

  MCollective::Vendor.load_vendored

  VERSION="@DEVELOPMENT_VERSION@"
  VERSION="2.8.0"

  def self.version
    VERSION

lib/mcollective/ddl/base.rb

@@ -100,11 +100,6 @@ def findddlfile(ddlname=nil, ddltype=nil)

      def validate_requirements
        if requirement = @requirements[:mcollective]
          if Util.mcollective_version == "@DEVELOPMENT_VERSION@"
            Log.warn("DDL requirements validation being skipped in development")
            return true
          end

          if Util.versioncmp(Util.mcollective_version, requirement) < 0
            raise DDLValidationError, "%s plugin '%s' requires MCollective version %s or newer" % [@plugintype.to_s.capitalize, @pluginname, requirement]
          end

spec/unit/mcollective/ddl/base_spec.rb

@@ -207,12 +207,6 @@ module DDL
          @ddl.requires(:mcollective => "0.1")
          @ddl.validate_requirements.should == true
        end

        it "should bypass checks in development" do
          Util.stubs(:mcollective_version).returns("@DEVELOPMENT_VERSION@")
          Log.expects(:warn).with(regexp_matches(/skipped in development/))
          @ddl.requires(:mcollective => "0.1")
        end
      end

      describe "#loaddlfile" do