[Lazarus] Retrieve VersionInfo at runtime

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Paul Ishenin wrote:
> 
> Version info from the project version info tab is usable on all platform 
> and there is a cross-platform way to retrieve it but it requires deep 
> knowledge of windows resources.

This makes no sense. :-) It's cross-platform, but requires deep knowledge
of MS Windows? How is MS Windows knowledge cross-platform?


> more belongs to RTL/FCL? I think that the proper place for such a class 
> is somewhere inside fcl-res package but the goal of that package differ 

I've seen comments here and there about FCL-res package, but haven't looked
at it in detail. But my first thought would also be that such version info
retrieval class be in FCL and not LCL.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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