mookid / pkg-info.el

Provide information about Emacs packages

pkg-info.el

Provide information about Emacs packages.

Installation

From MELPA with M-x package-install RET pkg-info.

In your Cask file:

(source melpa)

(depends-on "pkg-info")

This library is compatible with GNU Emacs 24.1 and newer. It will probably work with Emacs 23 as well, if package.el is installed, but it is not tested on Emacs 23 anymore.

Functions

This library defines the following functions for use in your Emacs extensions:

• pkg-info-library-original-version extracts the original version from the header of a library.
• pkg-info-library-version extracts the version from the header of a library.
• pkg-info-defining-library-version extracts the version from the header of a library defining a function.
• pkg-info-defining-library-original-version extracts the original version from the header of a library defining a function.
• pkg-info-package-version gets the version of an installed package.
• pkg-info-format-version formats a version as human readable string.
• pkg-info-get-melpa-recipe gets the MELPA recipe for a package.
• pkg-info-wiki-package-p determines whether a package was build from EmacsWiki on MELPA.

All of these functions are interactive commands as well.

A version is the version from the Library Headers, i.e. either from the Version or from the Package-Version headers. An original version is the version from the X-Original-Version header added by MELPA_ to preserve upstream versions.

Versions are represented as version lists, as returned by version-to-list.

License

pkg-info.el is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

pkg-info.el is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

See COPYING for the complete text of the license.