package information retrieval (was: Patch for tetris.el 1.3 -- improved gameplay)

Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: [...] [...] Yes that's definitely something worth thinking about. Eg. what, if we were to enhance package-get-package-provider to display more information, say the maintainer and probably the author-version as well, ie something like Index: package-get.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/package-get.el,v retrieving revision 1.63 diff -u -u -r1.63 package-get.el --- package-get.el 14 May 2003 23:57:35 -0000 1.63 +++ package-get.el 7 Jun 2003 08:48:52 -0000 ＠＠ -1224,7 +1224,11 ＠＠ (progn (setq done t) (setq found (list (caar packages) - (package-get-info-prop (car this-package) 'version)))) + (package-get-info-prop (car this-package) 'version) + (package-get-info-prop (car this-package) + 'maintainer) + (package-get-info-prop (car this-package) + 'author-version)))) (setq this-package (cdr this-package))))) (setq packages (cdr packages))) (when (interactive-p) This leads to (package-get-package-provider 'tetris) => (games "1.13" "Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt;&quot; "1.04") I'm not sure this doesn't break code, I've only looked up the references in package-get.el which are not affected by this. Steve Y, what do you say? Maybe it's better to add another method which returns a more complete set of items (customisable?) to the caller and leave p-g-p-p in peace? norbert.