adding version to shawl.exe properties

[dreamflow]

hi , i'm a user of shawl.exe .

could please the version of shawl be added to the shawl.exe properties
like on the picture below .
this would make it easier to manually and programatically
see the different shawl.exe versions on different machines ,
where shawl is installed on .

[Matthew Kennerly]

Sure, that sounds like a good idea 👍

[Martin Klinke]

Looks like it's not possible to include those properties in the exectuable while this is still open: rust-lang/rfcs#721

[Sam El-Borai]

@mklinke From what I see that can be done using the cargo build script embed-resource.`

[Matthew Kennerly]

I went with winres since it seemed more straightforward:

[Sam El-Borai]

Great :)

[dreamflow]

thank you @mtkennerly for implementing this feature
and thank you all others in this thread .

i'm already making use of this feature in my application
and can confirm that it's super easy now to programatically
read the shawl.exe version .

for those interessed , now i read the shawl.exe version
with a one-liner in AutoIt
FileGetVersion( '...path_to...\shawl.exe' , 'ProductVersion' )