version.hpp

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/*
   Copyright (C) 2015 - 2018 by Iris Morelle <shadowm2006@gmail.com>
   Part of the Battle for Wesnoth Project https://www.wesnoth.org/

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

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*/

/**
 * @file
 * Platform identification and version information functions.
 */

#pragma once

#include <string>

namespace desktop
{

/**
 * Returns a string with the running OS name and version information.
 *
 * On Windows, this is a string we generate ourselves by processing
 * GetVersionEx's output. On OS X and Linux, this is the output of a command
 * provided by the OS if available; failing that (and on other Unixes as well),
 * we use the uname system call, which is hardly ever useful.
 */
std::string os_version();

}