What's a better way of dealing with this problem?

I.e. I want to have the version number in some other location than project.clj, so I can use it for other tooling as well

So far this has worked, but now my linter is complaining about it 😉

I guess I could just use a templating script

@borkdude by templating, do you mean generate project.clj?

@sogaiu yeah, already fixed it: https://github.com/borkdude/clj-kondo/blob/missing-require/script/update-project.clj

@borkdude I tend to put stuff like that in a car before the defproject to avoid so much read-eval macro literal things happening.

Inline

car?

Var*

Typed from a phone with autocorrect hah

oh I forgot you can do that in project.clj....

lol, that makes it a lot simpler

Yeah. I may not have a good example but I believe inline reader eval dispatches can have strange behavior with symbol resolution as well. So I tend to push as much as I can into “normal” code and then just refer to a var or call a fn from the reader dispatch form.

so:

(require '[clojure.string :as str])
(defn version [] (str/trim (slurp "resources/CLJ_KONDO_VERSION")))
(defproject clj-kondo #=(version) ...)

Yeah like that.

Lein also supports the tilde as a special case within defproject, so like ~(version)

But according to a comment within the codebase that is deprecated for lein 3 hah

I think I'll just stay with templating, since I already wrote it. I might also be able to grab the deps information from deps.edn and wrangle it in the project.clj or vice versa

Sure. I could see that