Include which version in footer feature?

[gornycreative]

Regarding the "include version in admin footer from package.json if it exists" feature - I'm a little confused about what this is for. The code points to the package.json in the site root, not the module root.

https://github.com/baumrock/RockMigrations/blob/d957caeb5e4607d0b0afbb00ef18cdcb52895d83/RockMigrations.module.php#L923

But I don't think Ryan stores the processwire version there - which version number is this supposed to show? RockMigrations?

My site root package.json looks like:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "htmx.org": "^1.8.6",
    "jquery-typeahead": "^2.11.1"
  }
}

I started looking into this because I was getting a stdClass::$version warning.

[bernhard]

Hey @gornycreative thx for the question ? 

I've setup automatic version numbers (https://processwire.com/talk/topic/28235-how-to-get-fully-automated-releases-tags-changelog-and-version-numbers-for-your-module-or-processwire-project/) not only for all my modules but also for all my projects.

Also I have a staging and production system for many of them and there it is nice to know with version of the project is currently deployed. Maybe staging is at 1.2.3 whereas live is still at 1.2.0

Does that make sense? Should I add an explanation somewhere or change wording to make it clearer?

[gornycreative]

If you want - I'm not sure if others just haven't ticked the box and gotten the errors, but if its more internal use for you I won't bother with it.

Thanks.