How can my-program.hs get its version number from my-program.cabal at build time?

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Published on 2010-05-23T16:47:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 16:50 UTC
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I would like my cabalised program to have a --version switch.

I would like it to report the same version as is present in the .cabal file.

If I have to update the version number separately in my Haskell source code as well as in the .cabal file, I will eventually get them out of sync.

So, how can my program, while being compiled under cabal, get its version number from the .cabal file?

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