This reworks the way versions are handled internally to reverse the semantics such that the individual semver components (major, minor, patch, prerelease, and buildmetadata) are parsed from a full string and exported at init time.
Also, since the version is now parsed and verified to be accurate, it updates the pre-release parsing to properly support dots as required by the spec.
Finally, starting with Go version 1.18, it adds the git commit hash to the version string as buildmetadata when no buildmetadata is otherwise specified.
This provides a few main benefits:
Allows a single linker override to fully specify the version string instead of having separate ones that can only override the prerelease and build metadata portions
Provides run-time checks to ensure the full version string is valid per the semver spec regardless of whether it was specified directly in the source or provided via the linker
The exact commit used to build non-release versions will be in the version string by default
Finally, while here, add some comments regarding the release process to help maintainers.
This reworks the way versions are handled internally to reverse the semantics such that the individual semver components (major, minor, patch, prerelease, and buildmetadata) are parsed from a full string and exported at init time.
Also, since the version is now parsed and verified to be accurate, it updates the pre-release parsing to properly support dots as required by the spec.
Finally, starting with Go version 1.18, it adds the git commit hash to the version string as buildmetadata when no buildmetadata is otherwise specified.
This provides a few main benefits:
Finally, while here, add some comments regarding the release process to help maintainers.