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Re: What's the right way to extract a package's version from the header
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Jonas Bernoulli |
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Re: What's the right way to extract a package's version from the header metadata? |
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Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:13:02 +0100 |
"Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev> writes:
> (defconst cider-version
> (eval-when-compile
> (lm-version (or load-file-name buffer-file-name)))
> "The current version of CIDER.")
Cute ;D
Also check out magit's horror show; the *function* magit-version.
(No, I won't post that code here.)
That's what happens if you also want to support "installed using
a shallow git repo", "installed using symlinks into a git repo",
and all kinds of other funky installation methods.