snapcraft should have a 'version' command

[Mark Shuttleworth]

'snapcraft version' should produce the same output as 'snapcraft --version'

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

based on the current command structure of the snapcraft command i would actually expect "snapcraft version" to refer to the package i create ... reading snapcraft.yaml's version field and printing it or some such.

all other non -- snapcraft options are commands referring to the snap and snap build process.

OTOH --version in my head acts as option to the snapcraft command itself and here i would expect the snapcraft version ...

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

I do take your point Ogra, but I think the snapcraft.yaml has the
version and people will look there. I just find myself typing 'snapcraft
version' often and feeling like I stubbed my toe on a sharp thing we
could polish. Anybody else agree?

[Emanuele Antonio Faraone (emanueleant03)]

I agree

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

OK, let's make it so :)

 status: confirmed

Mark

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

El 09/06/16 a las 05:06, Mark Shuttleworth escribió:
> OK, let's make it so :)

I am more on the same boat as ogra on this. I do see `lxc` has a `version` command and that might be why this became a thing; we all use lxc, right? ;-)

That said, if popular demand dicates, we shall do it.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

On 09/06/16 20:34, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
> I do see `lxc` has a `version` command and that might be why this
> became a thing; we all use lxc, right? ;-)

'juju version' ... :)

[Gustavo Silva (gsilvapt)]

Can be followed in https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1746

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

this PR is still under review, changing the status back to In Progress

[Gustavo Silva (gsilvapt)]

Having it being merged into the master branch and being added to version 2.40, should the status be changed to Fix Released?