What's the D way of application version numbers?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 18:36:19 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> With C++ and Python, it is idiomatic to put the application 
> version number in a separate file that can then be processed
> by the build system.

That's the way I do it in D too:

file VERSION says "1.0"

dmd -J. myfile.d

enum version = import("VERSION");
// use it now like any other string in D