From a16c95b33fd215f4616fa2e7a80c81bcc629d945 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Helmling <michaelhelmling@posteo.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 13:08:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Adds a function for dynamic version information retrieval

The current way of exposing TagLib's version only through #define's
makes it impossible for clients (e.g. language bindings) to reliably
determine the TagLib version that is currently in use: using the
define's in client code will statically copy the compile-time values
into the client's library, but if TagLib is dynamically bound the
version (at least minor and patch version) can change after building
client code.
---
 taglib/toolkit/taglib.h | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/taglib/toolkit/taglib.h b/taglib/toolkit/taglib.h
index 2f4c5655..18f6b270 100644
--- a/taglib/toolkit/taglib.h
+++ b/taglib/toolkit/taglib.h
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
  * \endcode
  */
 
+#include <tuple>
+
 namespace TagLib
 {
   enum ByteOrder
@@ -53,6 +55,13 @@ namespace TagLib
     LittleEndian,
     BigEndian
   };
+  /*!
+   * Returns the library's version information as 3-tuple of ints (for major, minor, patch version).
+   */
+  std::tuple<int, int, int> version()
+  {
+      return std::make_tuple(TAGLIB_MAJOR_VERSION, TAGLIB_MINOR_VERSION, TAGLIB_PATCH_VERSION);
+  }
 }
 
 /*!