GMTver is not in string type

[seisman]

Tried GMT.jl in the try-gmt environment. The GMTver variable is in float64 type and it reports 6.109999999999999 instead of 6.1.1.

One more question: how to show the installed GMT.jl version in a Julia console?

[joa-quim]

Yes, GMTver is a float variable because I need to do several internal decisions depending on the GMT version installed and a float is much more handy that a string. It prints that ugly number because 0.1 has no exact representation in binary. It will look nicer with GMT 6.2. But that variable is for internal use so no big deal with that floating point feature.

To get the GMT.jl version one can do

 julia> using Pkg

julia> Pkg.status("GMT")
Status `C:\Users\joaqu\.julia\environments\tomls\Project.toml`
  [5752ebe1] GMT v0.27.0 `C:\Users\joaqu\.julia\dev\GMT`

[seisman]

To get the GMT.jl version one can do

 julia> using Pkg

julia> Pkg.status("GMT")
Status `C:\Users\joaqu\.julia\environments\tomls\Project.toml`
  [5752ebe1] GMT v0.27.0 `C:\Users\joaqu\.julia\dev\GMT`

Thanks. Is there a good way to check the GMT version in a Julia console if GMTver is only for internal use?

[joa-quim]

Well, GMTver is obtained by parsing the output of

julia> readlines(`gmt --version`)[1][1:5]
"6.2.0"

[seisman]

Looks like an ugly way to display the GMT version. Closing.