ocaml / ocaml/dune

Provide an API to know if `Build_info.V1.version ()` is returning a snapshot version

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Since Sep 7, 2021.

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Description

It can be useful to print different messages in the binary depending if we are running a development version or not. Since Build_info already knows this information, it would seem like an easy addition to its API.

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