From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev>
Cc: "Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Obtaining the version of an installed package
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:28:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwveeb02kb9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62035d5e-5249-4952-b216-cb778ff7d28d@www.fastmail.com> (Bozhidar Batsov's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:15:36 +0300")
> Yeah, something like this. Probably an overkill and it's not something I really need right now.
> What I mostly needed was to extract the installed version of a snapshot
> package for debug purposes (useful for packages on MELPA to understand how
> old is the snapshot someone installed there). E.g. I print this in CIDER's
> REPL:
>
> `;; CIDER 1.2.0snapshot (package: 20210729.521)`
This sounds like `package-get-version` would be sufficient since it's an
info printed by CIDER about CIDER rather than about some other package.
Or am I missing something?
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-11 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-09 8:28 Obtaining the version of an installed package Bozhidar Batsov
2021-08-09 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-09 14:03 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2021-08-09 15:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-09 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-11 7:15 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2021-08-11 13:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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