Document the VERSION weirdness (see #68)

SamuraiT · Jun 23, 2021 · 99e2ae1 · 99e2ae1
1 parent 3152f22
commit 99e2ae1
Showing 1 changed file with 7 additions and 0 deletions.
diff --git a/src/MeCab/__init__.py b/src/MeCab/__init__.py
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ def _reexport_filtered(thismod, submod):
 #
 # Version information
 #
+# Note that this is the version of MeCab, not of mecab-python3. Since MeCab
+# hasn't been updated since roughly 2013 this has been 0.996 for years and is
+# unlikely to ever change.
+#
+# This is preserved to avoid breaking API compatibility, but should be removed
+# in v2, should that ever happen.
+#
 
 VERSION = _MeCab.Tagger_version()
 __all__.append("VERSION")