CMake, Meson, Nix: replace props.json with VERSION

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ include(CheckIncludeFile)
 include(GNUInstallDirs)
 
 # Get version
-file(READ ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/props.json PROPS)
-string(JSON VER GET ${PROPS} version)
+file(READ "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/VERSION" VER_RAW)
+string(STRIP ${VER_RAW} VER)
 
 project(Hyprland
     DESCRIPTION "A Modern C++ Wayland Compositor"

VERSION

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.41.2

meson.build

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('Hyprland', 'cpp', 'c',
-  version : run_command('jq', '-r', '.version', join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'props.json'), check: true).stdout().strip(),
+  version : run_command('cat', join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'VERSION'), check: true).stdout().strip(),
   default_options : [
     'warning_level=2',
     'default_library=static',

nix/overlays.nix

@@ -3,13 +3,12 @@
   lib,
   inputs,
 }: let
-  props = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ../props.json);
-
   mkDate = longDate: (lib.concatStringsSep "-" [
     (builtins.substring 0 4 longDate)
     (builtins.substring 4 2 longDate)
     (builtins.substring 6 2 longDate)
   ]);
+  version = lib.removeSuffix "\n" (builtins.readFile ../VERSION);
 in {
   # Contains what a user is most likely to care about:
   # Hyprland itself, XDPH and the Share Picker.
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ in {
     in {
       hyprland = final.callPackage ./default.nix {
         stdenv = final.gcc13Stdenv;
-        version = "${props.version}+date=${date}_${self.shortRev or "dirty"}";
+        version = "${version}+date=${date}_${self.shortRev or "dirty"}";
         commit = self.rev or "";
         inherit date;
       };

props.json

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "version": "0.41.2"
-}