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Re: Obtaining the version of an installed package


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Obtaining the version of an installed package
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:28:56 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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




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