Version of an addon and provider

Few questions regarding packaging stuffs ...

1/ What is the better way to get the version of the addon used in the buit package process ? I would like get this info inside snippets. How could I propagate this value.
Do I create a system setting for each snippet and initialize this value inside the packaging process (and in this case how could I initialize system setting for snippets )
or ...

2/ How could be initialized the value "provider" of the package installed. Sometimes we have modx.com, sometines nothing.

Hi Coroico,

Albeit it’s not dealing about packages, you might want to give a look at the MODX getVersionData method.

PS: you should have a mail before tomorrow

Thanks Romain. getVersionData gives the version of Revo (e.g: 2.1.0 RC3). What I would like is to propagate during the packaging installation the correct version of the addon.
I would like avoid to hard code the snippet version inside the files.

But may be I could use the PKG_VERSION and PKG_RELEASE constantes used in the build.transport.php file and then the appropriate resolver assign these values inside snippets system settings.
But I am not sure that this is the better way to do this. Any thought on this subject is welcome.

In that case why not just create the system setting on your own (beside the "automation", i can’t see any benefit from my seat)?