Get rid of get_package_version()

This also changes the requirement of HDF5 to be ^0.16.15 because the
`get_package_version()` was used before to check if the package is older
to load a patch.

Project.toml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ UnROOT = "3cd96dde-e98d-4713-81e9-a4a1b0235ce9"
 
 [compat]
 DocStringExtensions = "0.8, 0.9"
-HDF5 = "^0.16, ^0.17"
+HDF5 = "^0.16.15, ^0.17"
 KM3NeTTestData = "^0.4.3"
 StaticArrays = "1"
 UnROOT = "^0.10.15"

src/KM3io.jl

@@ -97,9 +97,4 @@ include("tools/reconstruction.jl")
 
 include("physics.jl")
 
-if get_package_version("HDF5") < v"0.16.15"
-    # backport of the fix in https://github.com/JuliaIO/HDF5.jl/pull/1069
-    HDF5.datatype(::Type{T}) where {T} = HDF5.Datatype(HDF5.hdf5_type_id(T), isstructtype(T))
-end
-
 end # module

src/tools/general.jl

@@ -109,17 +109,3 @@ function tonumifpossible(v::AbstractString)
     end
     v
 end
-
-
-"""
-
-Returns the version of a given package.
-
-"""
-function get_package_version(package_name::AbstractString)
-    dependencies = Pkg.dependencies()
-    for (uuid, pkg_info) ∈ dependencies
-        pkg_info.name == package_name && return pkg_info.version
-    end
-    error("Package '$package_name' not found in the dependencies of the current environment.")
-end

test/tools.jl

@@ -81,11 +81,6 @@ end
     close(f)
 end
 
-@testset "get_package_version()" begin
-    v = KM3io.get_package_version("UnROOT")
-    @test v >= v"0.10.9"
-    @test_throws ErrorException KM3io.get_package_version("LetsAssumeThatThisPackageWillNeverBeInTheDependencies")
-end
 
 using KM3io
 using KM3NeTTestData