[Github-comments] [geany/geany] OS Info Improvements (#2618)

[Colomban Wendling]

> @techee AFAICT its not actually in the API, the documentation message is not a doxygen comment and the function isn't marked `GEANY_API_SYMBOL`.

No, but it has an API version in the `@since` tag, which doesn't make much sense.

> In theory a plugin might use the info, but given the variability (and as @frlan showed the fact that derived distros may show as the base distro) its probably not much use to a plugin.

Also, I don't see why a plugin would need that info if it's not an actual mean of identifying the platform (and even then, it's probably not a good metric to do anything).  As is it's really meant as a human-readable clue rather than something formal.  So ATM I don't see any reason for it to make it to plugin API anytime soon.

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