From 8a4e698fb7c465ef824934bc633e9dc932eafd46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Otten <totten@civicrm.org>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 18:59:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] CRM/Utils/System.php - Don't go through civicrm-version.php

In a typical environment, this is just an unnecessary file-load, and it
makes it harder to (someday) remove/deprecate `civicrm-version.php`.
---
 CRM/Utils/System.php | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CRM/Utils/System.php b/CRM/Utils/System.php
index 394dde6639..e2d72f5303 100644
--- a/CRM/Utils/System.php
+++ b/CRM/Utils/System.php
@@ -1081,9 +1081,14 @@ class CRM_Utils_System {
     static $version;
 
     if (!$version) {
-      $verFile = implode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, [dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..', 'civicrm-version.php']);
-      require_once $verFile;
-      $version = \Civi\Version::findVersion();
+      $verFile = implode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,
+        array(dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..', 'xml', 'version.xml')
+      );
+      if (file_exists($verFile)) {
+        $str = file_get_contents($verFile);
+        $xmlObj = simplexml_load_string($str);
+        $version = (string) $xmlObj->version_no;
+      }
 
       // pattern check
       if (!CRM_Utils_System::isVersionFormatValid($version)) {
-- 
2.25.1