Is there a way to get the version from META6.json in Perl6 module code?

Question

I want to do something like this:

die \"Fatal error: application version $MY-APPLICATION-VERSION\"

Since a Perl6 module cannot assume the r

Answer 1

As of rakudo v2019.03 modules may access the Distribution object used to load it via $?DISTRIBUTION. This allows the following:

unit module My::Module;

BEGIN my $VERSION = $?DISTRIBUTION.meta<version>;
use My::SubModule:ver($VERSION); # ensure we only ever use the version included in this distribution

die "Fatal error: application version $VERSION"