On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:10 PM, David Golden wrote: > Flip the question around. Why do you need to get the version for a > package and do you really need the version or do you need to do an > operation on the version that could be encapsulated by something else? I'm outputting the version in the "generated by" meta header of HTML. I do something similar for the PGXN API, where a header identifies the version. So I just want a string. And the original is a vstring. Best, David