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From: Harald Oehlmann <wortkarg3@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: is it possible to programmatically access Tcllib and Tklib
 versions?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:35:49 +0200
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Am 27.06.2024 um 07:37 schrieb Mark Summerfield:
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:31:58 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
> 
>> Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote:
>>> For a --help option or for an About box I like to show lib versions.
>>> This is easy for Tcl and for Tk, e.g.
>>>
>>> "Tcl v$::tcl_patchLevel/Tk v$::tk_version"
>>>
>>> But I can't see how to get the versions of Tcllib and Tklib. Is this
>>> possible?
>>
>> I don't think so, as each module within tcllib is separately versioned.
>>
>> You can show the versions by either capturing the return from package
>> require, or by rerunning package require at the time you want the data:
>>
>>      $ rlwrap tclsh % package require cmdline 1.5.2 % set cmdline_ver
>>      [package require cmdline]
>>      1.5.2 % puts "cmdline version is $cmdline_ver" cmdline version is
>>      1.5.2 %
> 
> Ok, understood. Thanks.

No, there is something. I asked this question and Andreas added something.
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/info/13fc0520a654f9e9
No, it is not included. But we recently have code to also include the 
fossil checkout id.
Here is the code by Alex:
https://fossil.sowaswie.de/ooxml/info/424958a4c5506180
I will add this to the tcllib ticket...

Harald