From 603cd12f78f69909668f8b1530e3e8cdd32220de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shahram Najm <masn@ecmwf.int>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 16:15:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ECC-1607: Move the version info from CMakeLists.txt to the
 VERSION file

---
 CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
 VERSION        | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 VERSION

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e7da7eead..050e8ff70 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required( VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR )
 find_package( ecbuild 3.7 REQUIRED HINTS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../ecbuild)
 
 # Initialise project
-project( eccodes VERSION 2.31.0 LANGUAGES CXX )
+project( eccodes LANGUAGES CXX )
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bafceb320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2.31.0