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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/techee/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/techee">@techee</a> AFAICT its not actually in the API, the documentation message is not a doxygen comment and the function isn't marked <code>GEANY_API_SYMBOL</code>.</p>
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<p>No, but it has an API version in the <code>@since</code> tag, which doesn't make much sense.</p>
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<p>In theory a plugin might use the info, but given the variability (and as <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/frlan/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/frlan">@frlan</a> showed the fact that derived distros may show as the base distro) its probably not much use to a plugin.</p>
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<p>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.</p>

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