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There needs to be a way to retrieve the correct minetest version, particularly for uses in external scripts and programs (In this case, a mod manager for minetest). I think a "minetest --version" option would be enough.

For that matter, how would you go about getting a mod's version as well? Standardizing a variable to do so, required for every mod to have somewhere? If not, then what would it take?

P.S. I remember fixing this exact post because of the bug, as usual. Maybe not :-/.

Truncated post bug. Please repost.

Wouldn't simply placing version.txt in minetest/bin/ be enough?

Most programs have a --version. Creating a text file each time would work too. Just something to tell the version.

I shouldn't be to hard to add a function such as:
major, minor, build = mintest.get_version()
So the version of the program I have now is "0.4.dev-20120122-1" therefore:
major = 0
minor = 4
build = dev-20120122-1