From a6782b9ca99191da764ebd02b8da98d3c10d3887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Robert=20Paj=C4=85k?= <pellared@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:24:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sdk/trace: remove unused version function (#7036)

The unexported `version()` function in `sdk/trace` is not used anywhere.
Not mentioning that the value it is returning is wrong.

There is already a `Version` function in `sdk` (which is in the same Go
module).
---
 sdk/trace/version.go      |  9 ---------
 sdk/trace/version_test.go | 21 ---------------------
 2 files changed, 30 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 sdk/trace/version.go
 delete mode 100644 sdk/trace/version_test.go

diff --git a/sdk/trace/version.go b/sdk/trace/version.go
deleted file mode 100644
index b84dd2c5e..000000000
--- a/sdk/trace/version.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-package trace // import "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace"
-
-// version is the current release version of the metric SDK in use.
-func version() string {
-	return "1.16.0-rc.1"
-}
diff --git a/sdk/trace/version_test.go b/sdk/trace/version_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index e2a353795..000000000
--- a/sdk/trace/version_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-package trace
-
-import (
-	"regexp"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-)
-
-var versionRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`^(0|[1-9]\d*)\.(0|[1-9]\d*)\.(0|[1-9]\d*)` +
-	`(?:-((?:0|[1-9]\d*|\d*[a-zA-Z-][0-9a-zA-Z-]*)` +
-	`(?:\.(?:0|[1-9]\d*|\d*[a-zA-Z-][0-9a-zA-Z-]*))*))?` +
-	`(?:\+([0-9a-zA-Z-]+(?:\.[0-9a-zA-Z-]+)*))?$`)
-
-func TestVersionSemver(t *testing.T) {
-	v := version()
-	assert.Regexp(t, versionRegex, v)
-}