To ensure that the built-in kits share version numbers with the core compiler.

§1. This implements -kit-versions:

void KitVersioning::show_versions(void) {
    web_md *inform7_web =
        WebMetadata::get_without_modules(Pathnames::from_text(I"inform7"), NULL);
    semantic_version_number core_V = inform7_web->version_number;
    PRINT("Core version is %v\n", &core_V);
    KitVersioning::iterate(VersionNumbers::null());
}

§2. And -sync-kit-versions:

void KitVersioning::sync_versions(void) {
    web_md *inform7_web =
        WebMetadata::get_without_modules(Pathnames::from_text(I"inform7"), NULL);
    semantic_version_number core_V = inform7_web->version_number;
    PRINT("inform7 web has version %v\n", &core_V);
    KitVersioning::iterate(core_V);
}

§3. Both use the following to work through the built-in kits:

void KitVersioning::iterate(semantic_version_number set_to) {
    KitVersioning::show_version(I"WorldModelKit", set_to);
    KitVersioning::show_version(I"EnglishLanguageKit", set_to);
    KitVersioning::show_version(I"CommandParserKit", set_to);
    KitVersioning::show_version(I"BasicInformKit", set_to);
    KitVersioning::show_version(I"Architecture16Kit", set_to);
    KitVersioning::show_version(I"Architecture32Kit", set_to);
}

void KitVersioning::show_version(text_stream *name, semantic_version_number set_to) {
    pathname *P = Pathnames::from_text(I"inform7/Internal/Inter");
    P = Pathnames::down(P, name);
    semantic_version_number V = KitVersioning::read_version(P, set_to);
    PRINT("Kit %S has version %v\n", name, &V);
}

§4. The actual work, then, is done by this function, which returns the version number of the kit stored at the path kit; if set_to is other than null, the kit's version is changed to set_to, and this value returned. In both cases, the kit's JSON metadata file is read in; in the second case, it is then written back out, modified to include the new version number. (Note that no file write occurs unless an actual change is needed: if set_to is the same as the version it already has, there's no need to rewrite.)

semantic_version_number KitVersioning::read_version(pathname *kit, semantic_version_number set_to) {
    filename *F = Filenames::in(kit, I"kit_metadata.json");
    TEMPORARY_TEXT(contents)
    TextFiles::read(F, FALSE, "unable to read file of JSON metadata", TRUE,
        &KitVersioning::read_metadata_file_helper, NULL, contents);
    text_file_position tfp = TextFiles::at(F, 1);
    JSON_value *value = JSON::decode(contents, &tfp);
    if ((value) && (value->JSON_type == ERROR_JSONTYPE)) {
        Errors::at_position("Syntax error in metadata file for kit", F, 1);
        return VersionNumbers::null();
    }
    DISCARD_TEXT(contents)

    JSON_value *is = JSON::look_up_object(value, I"is");
    if (is == NULL) {
        Errors::at_position("Semantic error in metadata file for kit", F, 1);
        return VersionNumbers::null();
    }
    JSON_value *version = JSON::look_up_object(is, I"version");
    semantic_version_number V = VersionNumbers::null();
    if (version) {
        V = VersionNumbers::from_text(version->if_string);
        if (VersionNumbers::is_null(V)) {
            Errors::at_position("Malformed version number in metadata file for kit", F, 1);
            return VersionNumbers::null();
        }
    }
    if (VersionNumbers::is_null(set_to) == FALSE)
        Decide whether to impose the new version4.1;
    return V;
}

§4.1. The following test used to be just VersionNumbers::ne(set_to, V), but this, because it properly followed the semver standard, regarded them as equal if they differed only in the build code — so 10.1.0-beta+6V20 would not be updated to 10.1.0-beta+6V44, for example. We now force a sync if there is any textual difference at all.

Decide whether to impose the new version4.1 =

    TEMPORARY_TEXT(a)
    TEMPORARY_TEXT(b)
    WRITE_TO(a, "%v", &set_to);
    WRITE_TO(b, "%v", &V);
    if (Str::ne(a, b))
        Change the version to set_to4.1.1;
    DISCARD_TEXT(a)
    DISCARD_TEXT(b)

§4.1.1. We change the JSON object for the kit's metadata (at object.is.version), and then encode the object out as a new version of the file:

Change the version to set_to4.1.1 =

    if (version == NULL) {
        version = JSON::new_string(I"");
        JSON::add_to_object(is, I"version", version);
    }
    PRINT("Rewriting %f to impose version number %v (was %v)\n", F, &set_to, &V);
    Str::clear(version->if_string);
    WRITE_TO(version->if_string, "%v", &set_to);
    text_stream JSON_struct; text_stream *OUT = &JSON_struct;
    if (STREAM_OPEN_TO_FILE(OUT, F, UTF8_ENC) == FALSE)
        Errors::fatal_with_file("unable to open metadata file for output: %f", F);
    JSON::encode(OUT, value);
    STREAM_CLOSE(OUT);
    V = set_to;

§5.

void KitVersioning::read_metadata_file_helper(text_stream *text, text_file_position *tfp,
    void *v_state) {
    text_stream *contents = (text_stream *) v_state;
    WRITE_TO(contents, "%S\n", text);
}