automatically set release version based on tag

Author: Panaetius

.github/workflows/release.yaml

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ env:
 jobs:
   release:
     name: Release - ${{ matrix.platform.os_name }}
+    env:
+      COMAN_RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
         platform:
@@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - name: Strip version leading v
+        run: echo "COMAN_RELEASE_VERSION=${COMAN_RELEASE_VERSION##v}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: Install toolchain
         uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
         with:

Cargo.lock

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 [package]
 name = "coman"
-version = "0.8.9"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Compute Manager for managing HPC compute"
 authors = ["Ralf Grubenmann <ralf.grubenmann@sdsc.ethz.ch>"]

coman/Cargo.toml

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ use anyhow::Result;
 use vergen_gix::{BuildBuilder, CargoBuilder, Emitter, GixBuilder};
 
 fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    if let Ok(val) = std::env::var("COMAN_RELEASE_VERSION") {
+        println!("cargo:rustc-env=CARGO_PKG_VERSION={}", val);
+    }
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=COMAN_RELEASE_VERSION");
     let build = BuildBuilder::all_build()?;
     let gix = GixBuilder::all_git()?;
     let cargo = CargoBuilder::all_cargo()?;

coman/build.rs

@@ -485,14 +485,7 @@ pub enum CscsSystemCommands {
 
 pub const COMAN_VERSION: &str = env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");
 
-const VERSION_MESSAGE: &str = concat!(
-    env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"),
-    "-",
-    env!("VERGEN_GIT_DESCRIBE"),
-    " (",
-    env!("VERGEN_BUILD_DATE"),
-    ")"
-);
+const VERSION_MESSAGE: &str = concat!(env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"), " (", env!("VERGEN_BUILD_DATE"), ")");
 
 pub fn version() -> String {
     // let current_exe_path = PathBuf::from(clap::crate_name!()).display().to_string();