Add a new version function returning just the version without extras

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/utils/version.h b/src/lib/utils/version.h
index f82916607..fe59de625 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils/version.h
+++ b/src/lib/utils/version.h
@@ -24,9 +24,25 @@ namespace Botan {
 */
 BOTAN_PUBLIC_API(2,0) std::string version_string();
 
+/**
+* Same as version_string() except returning a pointer to a statically
+* allocated string.
+* @return version string
+*/
 BOTAN_PUBLIC_API(2,0) const char* version_cstr();
 
 /**
+* Return a version string of the form "MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH" where
+* each of the values is an integer.
+*/
+BOTAN_PUBLIC_API(2,4) std::string short_version_string();
+
+/**
+* Same as version_short_string except returning a pointer to the string.
+*/
+BOTAN_PUBLIC_API(2,4) const char* short_version_cstr();
+
+/**
 * Return the date this version of botan was released, in an integer of
 * the form YYYYMMDD. For instance a version released on May 21, 2013
 * would return the integer 20130521. If the currently running version