| ## Project version can be specified with a file | |
| Meson can be instructed to load a project's version string from an | |
| external file like this: | |
| ```meson | |
| project('foo', 'c' version: files('VERSION')) | |
| ``` | |
| The version file must contain exactly one line of text which will | |
| be used as the project's version. If the line ends in a newline | |
| character, it is removed. |