I guess that could work, although from what I gathered it operates only on the current package. I was hoping to find something like an API like `(package-get-version 'package-name)`.
On Mon, Aug 9, 2021, at 3:58 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's an API for obtaining metadata about installed
> packages, in particular the version information.
> For years I was using this function from pkg-info
> I'm wondering if it'd be easy to strip one dependency from my packages.
Are you looking for `package-get-version`?
Stefan