implementing --version?

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 23:46:41 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 21:32:16 UTC, mab-on wrote:
>> What i want is a clever mechanism to store the SemVer (or 
>> Commit-ID) in the binary at compiletime - automatically. 
>> Otherwise i have to think to update a const in the code every 
>> time i build a new Version.
>
>     enum versionData = import("version.dat");
>     enum min = anyCTFEFunctionThatParsesMin(versionData);
>     enum maj = anyCTFEFunctionThatParsesMaj(versionData);
>     // etc... you can even use compile-time regex...
>
>
> The path to the file "version.dat" must be specified with the 
> -J DMD command line.
> Generating the file is another story, maybe a git script could 
> do that.

I have an example here:

https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/blob/master/cesetup/cesetup.d#L165

I don't use semVer but you basically get the method.