Motivation

To speed up the load time of the About dialog in IDE2. As requested in #1572, IDE2 reads the CLI version from the package.json.

Change description

• 2.0.3:

  Screen Shot 2023年01月06日 at 09 59 43

• A dev build with the changes:

  Screen Shot 2023年01月06日 at 10 06 39

• Local IDE2 build with the changes:

  Screen Shot 2023年01月06日 at 10 24 32

Other information

If the CLI version is a pinned commitish and not a semver, IDE2 will show the commitsh.

Assuming the following pinned CLI version:

diff --git a/arduino-ide-extension/package.json b/arduino-ide-extension/package.json
index 1b7cc2de..ab4414ea 100644
--- a/arduino-ide-extension/package.json
+++ b/arduino-ide-extension/package.json
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
 ],
 "arduino": {
 "cli": {
- "version": "0.29.0"
+ "version": "alma"
 },
 "fwuploader": {
 "version": "2.2.2"

The expected About dialog (with a dev build) is:

Screen Shot 2023年01月06日 at 10 07 45

Closes #1572

It should be possible to run arduino-cli version --no-fetch or similar to avoid checking for updates. I have never used a CLI tool before that does a silent remote fetch when getting the only version. If there is a good example, please let me know. CLIs usually warn about the outdated version (brew, npm, yarn, etc.) when users execute a command that requires the Intenet connection. The Arduino CLI ought to warn the user on core index-update or lib install but not on version.

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