feat: no remote fetch when IDE gets CLI version

the CLI version is retrieved from the `package.json` of the extension:
`arduino.cli.version`

Signed-off-by: Akos Kitta <a.kitta@arduino.cc>

arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/contributions/about.ts

@@ -41,22 +41,16 @@ export class About extends Contribution {
   }
 
   async showAbout(): Promise<void> {
-    const {
-      version,
-      commit,
-      status: cliStatus,
-    } = await this.configService.getVersion();
+    const version = await this.configService.getVersion();
     const buildDate = this.buildDate;
     const detail = (showAll: boolean) =>
       nls.localize(
         'arduino/about/detail',
-        'Version: {0}\nDate: {1}{2}\nCLI Version: {3}{4} [{5}]\n\n{6}',
+        'Version: {0}\nDate: {1}{2}\nCLI Version: {3}\n\n{4}',
         remote.app.getVersion(),
         buildDate ? buildDate : nls.localize('', 'dev build'),
         buildDate && showAll ? ` (${this.ago(buildDate)})` : '',
         version,
-        cliStatus ? ` ${cliStatus}` : '',
-        commit,
         nls.localize(
           'arduino/about/copyright',
           'Copyright © {0} Arduino SA',

arduino-ide-extension/src/common/protocol/config-service.ts

@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ import { RecursivePartial } from '@theia/core/lib/common/types';
 export const ConfigServicePath = '/services/config-service';
 export const ConfigService = Symbol('ConfigService');
 export interface ConfigService {
-  getVersion(): Promise<
-    Readonly<{ version: string; commit: string; status?: string }>
-  >;
+  getVersion(): Promise<Readonly<string>>;
   getConfiguration(): Promise<ConfigState>;
   setConfiguration(config: Config): Promise<void>;
 }

arduino-ide-extension/src/node/arduino-daemon-impl.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { EnvVariablesServer } from '@theia/core/lib/common/env-variables';
 import { BackendApplicationContribution } from '@theia/core/lib/node/backend-application';
 import { ArduinoDaemon, NotificationServiceServer } from '../common/protocol';
 import { CLI_CONFIG } from './cli-config';
-import { getExecPath, spawnCommand } from './exec-util';
+import { getExecPath } from './exec-util';
 import { ErrnoException } from './utils/errors';
 
 @injectable()
@@ -126,28 +126,6 @@ export class ArduinoDaemonImpl
     return this._execPath;
   }
 
-  async getVersion(): Promise<
-    Readonly<{ version: string; commit: string; status?: string }>
-  > {
-    const execPath = await this.getExecPath();
-    const raw = await spawnCommand(
-      `"${execPath}"`,
-      ['version', '--format', 'json'],
-      this.onError.bind(this)
-    );
-    try {
-      // The CLI `Info` object: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/blob/17d24eb901b1fdaa5a4ec7da3417e9e460f84007/version/version.go#L31-L34
-      const { VersionString, Commit, Status } = JSON.parse(raw);
-      return {
-        version: VersionString,
-        commit: Commit,
-        status: Status,
-      };
-    } catch {
-      return { version: raw, commit: raw };
-    }
-  }
-
   protected async getSpawnArgs(): Promise<string[]> {
     const [configDirUri, debug] = await Promise.all([
       this.envVariablesServer.getConfigDirUri(),

arduino-ide-extension/src/node/config-service-impl.ts

@@ -131,10 +131,8 @@ export class ConfigServiceImpl
     return this.configChangeEmitter.event;
   }
 
-  async getVersion(): Promise<
-    Readonly<{ version: string; commit: string; status?: string }>
-  > {
-    return this.daemon.getVersion();
+  async getVersion(): Promise<string> {
+    return require('../../package.json').arduino?.cli?.version || '';
   }
 
   private async initConfig(): Promise<void> {

i18n/en.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "arduino": {
     "about": {
-      "detail": "Version: {0}\nDate: {1}{2}\nCLI Version: {3}{4} [{5}]\n\n{6}",
+      "detail": "Version: {0}\nDate: {1}{2}\nCLI Version: {3}\n\n{4}",
       "label": "About {0}"
     },
     "board": {