GBBopen 1.5 Reference -- get-patch-description

get-patch-description

get-patch-description id module-name => id, date, author, description, date-loaded, file-name or nil [Function]

Purpose
Return the information describing patch id to a module.

Package :module-manager

Module :module-manager

Arguments and values

id		An object
module-name		A keyword symbol naming a module
date		A universal time
author		A string
description		A string or a proper list of strings or `nil`
date-loaded		A universal time
file-name		A string

Returns
Six values: id, date, author, description, date-loaded, and file-name, or nil if the patch has not been loaded.

Errors
Module module-name has not been defined.

Examples
Get the description values for patch 1 to module :my-app:

  > (get-patch-description 1 ':my-app)
  1
  3423139200
  "Corkill"
  "A simple example patch"
  3423316130
  "my-app-p001"
  >

and for non-existent patch 3:

  > (get-patch-description 3 ':my-app)
  nil
  >

and for patch 1 in module :gbbopen-test (when that module has not been loaded):

  > (get-patch-description 1 ':gbbopen-test)
  nil
  >

get-patch-description