As for directly including the version files, I think something less ugly can be worked out

I was too harsh. The earlier suggestion was really no worse than the version parsing you'll find in Lexilla's development scripts:

    # Discover version information
    version = (lexillaDir / "version.txt").read_text().strip()
    versionDotted = version[0] + '.' + version[1] + '.' + version[2]
    versionCommad = versionDotted.replace(".", ", ") + ', 0'

or Scintilla's:

class ScintillaData:
    def __init__(self, scintillaRoot):
        # Discover version information
        self.version = (scintillaRoot / "version.txt").read_text().strip()
        self.versionDotted = self.version[0] + '.' + self.version[1] + '.' + \
            self.version[2]
        self.versionCommad = self.versionDotted.replace(".", ", ") + ', 0'

But then, how does SciTE manage all those version numbers in the About dialog?

#ifndef SCITE_H
#define SCITE_H

// Version numbers and dates
#define VERSION_SCITE "5.1.6"
#define VERSION_WORDS 5, 1, 6, 0
#define COPYRIGHT_DATES "December 1998-December 2021"
#define COPYRIGHT_YEARS "1998-2021"
#define VERSION_SCINTILLA "5.1.5"
#define VERSION_LEXILLA "5.1.4"

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