Package version String

> a image package has a version string with respect to a given
> database, can be reconciled in one image to several packages with
> different version strings in different databases, and caches the
> version(s) of database(s) to which it is reconciled. Separate from
> this, it may have a #version property.
>
> 1) #version is probably not what you want. When we at Cincom build
> parcels for the distribution, we set a property, #version, in their
> packages. We also set #version in unparcelled packages in Base
> VisualWorks. Although generally, our code makes some attempt to
> preserve a correspondance between a parcel's version string and the
> #version property of the corresponding package or bundle, you are
> dependent on whoever maintains the package for the policy with regard to
> its #version property, or whether it is there at all. There is no
> guarantee that the value of #version matches the string of the package
> to whcih it is reconciled in any database to which you have republished
> a parcel. (It will by default but anyone can set their own version
> string in the PublishPundleDialog, regardless of what #version says.)
>
> 2) If a package is reconciled to a database, the package in the image
> will have a DatabaseConnectionInformation for that database, and the
> dbVersion of this object will hold its version string. This is probably
> what you want, not #version. The relevant accessing methods are
> designed so you can either get the database connection information for
> the most recent connected database (whether still connected or not), or
> supply the symbol of a specific database. Usually this is done by
> same-name methods just having or lacking a parameter (e.g.
> PundleModel>>databaseInformation and
> PundleModel>>databaseInformationFor:), but for historical reasons the
> methods that get versions differ slightly from this.
> PundleModel>>traceVersionString
> supplies the version for that most recent connected database, or the
> empty string if no such data.
> PundleModel>>versionStringFor: dbid
> returns the same for the supplied database symbol, suffixed with = if
> the image pundle is unchanged or * if it has been.
>
> Hope this lets you get the data you need.
>
> Yours faithfully
> Niall Ross
>
> >Hi,
> >I aml trying to figure out how to get a version string from a Package.
> >The reason is that I would like to automate an About dialog.
> >
> >Any hints ?
> >
> >@+Maarten,
> >
> >
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