#17581 Pants should be able to tell if its launcher script is up-to-date New issue created by chrisjrn Watching the back-and-forth on #17563, we're running into an issue with the

VERSION

file again. We didn't change it in the first place because the path to the `VERSION` file is hardcoded into the launcher script. Moving the

VERSION

file has been assessed to have minimal impact, because it only affects users of

PANTS_FROM_SHA

, however, with future changes (such as adding new distribution formats), it would be useful to alert users to the launcher script changing, in case the breakage is more severe. pantsbuild/pants