[tex-live] tlmgr: Is it possible to see the version number of a ctan package?

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:25:44AM +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> 
> > > i have now changed the catalogue repository.  as i understand it, this
> > 
> > Is there a need to do the update of the version number *manually*?
> 
> there's no fixed way of recording a version number, and while your way
> is common, it's by no means a majority (and parsing it, without latex in
> the loop, might be challenging ... non trivial in an automatic
> procedure)
> 
> so i've never tried.

I could provide an additional file with meta data in a defined
format. If you are interested, tell me what you need.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>