Injecting version into package.json should start early

[cawa-93]

• Electron-Builder Version: 26.0.0-alpha.6

• Node Version: 23.0.0

• Target: Windows

I'm trying to inject app version on compile stage. I have a package.json with major.minor version part and compile app like so:

electron-builder build -c.extraMetadata.version=$MAJOR.$MINOR.$DYNAMICALLY_CALCULATED_PATCH

The final command may look like this:

electron-builder build --config electron-builder.mjs --publish never -c.extraMetadata.version=3.1.1731434857-vanilla-ts

But it fails with error:

Invalid version: "3.1"  failedTask=build stackTrace=Error: Invalid version: "3.1"

As I assume, version checking happens before all injections into the package.json

[mmaietta]

Curious, why not just set the package.json version to major.minor.0? Your c.extraMetadata.version will override it anyways later on

[cawa-93]

Yeap. I can do that. But It's just not intuitive. If I inject the version, I expect it to be validated.