Simplify VERSION.pm

lib/PBot/Core.pm

@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ sub initialize {
     # prepare and open logger
     $self->{logger} = PBot::Core::Logger->new(pbot => $self, filename => "$conf{data_dir}/log/log", %conf);
 
+    # log the version
+    $self->{logger}->log(PBot::VERSION::BUILD_NAME . ' version ' . PBot::VERSION::BUILD_REVISION . ' ' . PBot::VERSION::BUILD_DATE . "\n");
+
     # log command-line arguments
     $self->{logger}->log("Args: @ARGV\n") if @ARGV;
 
@@ -158,10 +161,6 @@ sub initialize {
     # create commands so the modules can register new commands
     $self->{commands} = PBot::Core::Commands->new(pbot => $self, filename => "$conf{data_dir}/commands", %conf);
 
-    # prepare the version information and `version` command
-    $self->{version} = PBot::VERSION->new(pbot => $self, %conf);
-    $self->{logger}->log($self->{version}->version . "\n");
-
     # prepare registry
     $self->{registry} = PBot::Core::Registry->new(pbot => $self, filename => "$conf{data_dir}/registry", %conf);
 

lib/PBot/Core/Commands/Version.pm

@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ use parent 'PBot::Core::Class';
 
 use PBot::Imports;
 
-use PBot::VERSION qw/BUILD_REVISION BUILD_DATE/;
-
 use LWP::UserAgent;
 
 sub initialize {
@@ -22,7 +20,11 @@ sub initialize {
     $self->{pbot}->{commands}->register(sub { $self->cmd_version(@_) }, 'version');
 
     # initialize last_check version data
-    $self->{last_check} = {timestamp => 0, version => BUILD_REVISION, date => BUILD_DATE};
+    $self->{last_check} = {
+        timestamp => 0,
+        version   => PBot::VERSION::BUILD_REVISION,
+        date      => PBot::VERSION::BUILD_DATE,
+    };
 }
 
 sub cmd_version {
@@ -61,9 +63,9 @@ sub cmd_version {
 
     my $result = '/say ';
     $result .= "$target_nick: " if $target_nick;
-    $result .= $self->{pbot}->{version}->version;
+    $result .= PBot::VERSION::BUILD_NAME . ' version ' . PBot::VERSION::BUILD_REVISION . ' ' . PBot::VERSION::BUILD_DATE;
 
-    if ($self->{last_check}->{version} > BUILD_REVISION) {
+    if ($self->{last_check}->{version} > PBot::VERSION::BUILD_REVISION) {
         $result .= "; new version available: $self->{last_check}->{version} $self->{last_check}->{date}!";
     }
 

lib/PBot/VERSION.pm

@@ -1,48 +1,29 @@
 # File: VERSION.pm
 #
-# Purpose: Keeps track of bot version. All of PBot is considered a single
+# Purpose: Keeps track of bot version constants.
-# entity. The BUILD_REVSION constant in this file is the count of git commits
-# to the PBot repository when this file was updated. This file is updated by
-# the /misc/update_version script after any commits that alter PBot's behavior.
 #
-# See also PBot::Core::Commands::Version, which can compare current version
+# Rather than each PBot::Core package having its own version identifier, all
-# against latest version on github or URL in `version.check_url` registry
+# of PBot is considered a single package. The BUILD_REVSION constant is the
-# entry to notify users of the availability of a new version.
+# count of git commits to the PBot repository.
+#
+# See also the version command in PBot::Core::Commands::Version. It can compare
+# the local PBot version against latest version on GitHub (or the URL in
+# the `version.check_url` registry entry) to notify users of the availability
+# of a new version.
 #
 # TODO: The PBot::Plugin::* plugins probably should have their own version
-# identifiers as a template for using versioned $HOME/PBot/Plugin/ plugins. I
+# identifiers as a template for versioned $HOME/PBot/Plugin/ plugins.
-# don't want to micro-manage version identifiers for PBot::Core stuff though.
 
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Pragmatic Software <pragma78@gmail.com>
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
 package PBot::VERSION;
-use parent 'PBot::Core::Class';
 
-use PBot::Imports;
+# These are set by the /misc/update_version script
-
-use Exporter qw/import/;
-our @EXPORT = ();
-our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
-    'all' => [qw/BUILD_NAME BUILD_REVISION BUILD_DATE/],
-);
-our @EXPORT_OK = (
-    @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{all} },
-);
-
-# These are set automatically by the /misc/update_version script
 use constant {
     BUILD_NAME     => "PBot",
-    BUILD_REVISION => 4317,
+    BUILD_REVISION => 4318,
     BUILD_DATE     => "2021-07-27",
 };
 
-sub initialize {
-    # nothing to do here
-}
-
-sub version {
-    return BUILD_NAME . " version " . BUILD_REVISION . " " . BUILD_DATE;
-}
-
 1;