From 3630ccf34a3ccf21928344c06f88294aae1932ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kirill Zhuravlev <kazhuravlev@fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 13:38:01 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] add version constructor

---
 version.go | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index 4283d39..f80e3e5 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -207,6 +207,21 @@ func NewVersion(v string) (*Version, error) {
 	return sv, nil
 }
 
+func New(major, minor, patch uint64, pre, metadata string) *Version {
+	v := Version{
+		major:    major,
+		minor:    minor,
+		patch:    patch,
+		pre:      pre,
+		metadata: metadata,
+		original: "",
+	}
+
+	v.original = v.String()
+
+	return &v
+}
+
 // MustParse parses a given version and panics on error.
 func MustParse(v string) *Version {
 	sv, err := NewVersion(v)