test version [a1]

Signed-off-by: Mic Bowman <[email protected]>

bin/get_version

@@ -19,20 +19,25 @@ import os
 import pathlib
 import subprocess
 
-pdo_source_root = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent
-default_version_file = pdo_source_root / 'VERSION'
+pdo_source_root=pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent
+version_file = pdo_source_root / 'VERSION'
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+
 parser.add_argument(
     '--version-file', '-v',
     help='File where version information is stored',
-    type=str,
-    default=default_version_file)
+    type=str)
+
 options = parser.parse_args()
 
+if options.version_file :
+    version_file = pathlib.Path(options.version_file)
+    pdo_source_root = version_file.parent
+
 # the version file is a tab separated list of version numbers and git commit hashes in reverse
 # order (newest is at the top of the file)
-with open(options.version_file, 'r') as vf :
+with open(version_file, 'r') as vf :
     (version, commit, *rest) = vf.readline().strip().split('\t')
 
 # the version is of the form x.y.z, there may be an optional 'v' at the beginning of the version