Can I get the internal name of a package at runtime?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 3:59 PM, MarLinn <monkleyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> That sounds reasonable, but also like there *can not be* a way to obtain
> that hash at runtime. And therefore, no way to discover the true package
> name.
>

I can think of a hacky way: make sure the symbol table is still present in
the executable and that you can find said executable, z-encode the part of
the package+version you know and a symbol you know, and look for symbols
that start with one and end with the other; the hash will be in between.

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