Add a better version print out for conda --version

[travishathaway]

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What is the idea?

The GitHub CLI includes a link to the release notes when gh --version is run. Example below:

$ gh --version
gh version 2.28.0 (2023-04-25)
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.28.0

This would be pretty neat to add to conda as well. I hope this would be relatively straightforward to implement, but I am not 100% sure.

Why is this needed?

This would provide users with a quicker link to our release notes which outline what has changes in various versions. This could help users write more informed bug reports/feature requests.

What should happen?

• When conda --version is run, a link to the release notes is also shown (see the gh --version example for details)
• The link to the release notes should reference our documentation (e.g. https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/stable/release-notes.html#release-notes) and note the GitHub page.
• Add a new release notes entry to conda info

Additional Context

Because this could break existing behavior, the new output should be opt-in with a migration path to making it the default.

[wolfv]

Nice idea!

I could imagine that some tools rely on the way that --version used to be printed on the command line, maybe one can offer them a nice migration path (e.g. conda info --select version or something like that?

[travishathaway]

Ahh yes, Hyrum's Law 😂

We could definitely do that. Additionally, we could also just add a new entry to the "conda info" listing.

Example:

active environment : base
    active env location : /Users/travishathaway/opt/conda_x86_64
            shell level : 1
       user config file : /Users/travishathaway/.condarc
 populated config files : /Users/travishathaway/.condarc
          conda version : 23.3.1
          release notes : https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/stable/release-notes.html#id1
...

The way those ids are setup in the documentation do not make them easy to link to though, so that will be another problem to figure out 🤷‍♂️.

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