fix version flags displaying bad version on linux (#1422) (#2089)

yargs, the command line parsing library, was unable to read the app's version automatically from package.json
fix by passing the app's version as electron sees it

src/main/app/initialize.test.js

@@ -170,16 +170,6 @@ describe('main/app/initialize', () => {
             await initialize();
             expect(app.setPath).toHaveBeenCalledWith('userData', '/basedir/some/dir');
         });
-
-        it('should show version and exit when specified', async () => {
-            jest.spyOn(process.stdout, 'write').mockImplementation(() => {});
-            const exitSpy = jest.spyOn(process, 'exit').mockImplementation(() => {});
-            parseArgs.mockReturnValue({
-                version: true,
-            });
-            await initialize();
-            expect(exitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(0);
-        });
     });
 
     describe('initializeConfig', () => {

src/main/app/initialize.ts

@@ -138,12 +138,6 @@ export async function initialize() {
 function initializeArgs() {
     global.args = parseArgs(process.argv.slice(1));
 
-    // output the application version via cli when requested (-v or --version)
-    if (global.args.version) {
-        process.stdout.write(`v.${app.getVersion()}\n`);
-        process.exit(0); // eslint-disable-line no-process-exit
-    }
-
     global.isDev = isDev && !global.args.disableDevMode; // this doesn't seem to be right and isn't used as the single source of truth
 
     if (global.args.dataDir) {