[XMLBEANS-584] change version code so that the value is automatically generated

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Version 5.1.0
• Assignee: PJ Fanning
• Reporter: PJ Fanning
• Created: 29/Dec/21 12:43
• Updated: 07/Jan/22 10:14
• Resolved: 07/Jan/22 10:14

Description

https://github.com/apache/xmlbeans/blob/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/xmlbeans/XmlBeans.java#L41

• easy to forget to update this when preparing releases
• have the gradle build generate a file as part of the build - that gets added as a resource to the jar
• the code can then read the version from the file