Motivation

With the many peer dependencies the driver has in addition the future where they are brought in lazily (NODE-4977) it could be useful to have a way to determine if the dependency was / can be imported and what version is the one being imported.

Open Questions

• Is it safe to import a dependency's package.json file?
  • we did it with snappy for a while
• Should the packge.json version be imported regardless of if the feature is used, or only when the feature is used?
  • It seems reasonable someone would want to know that information before actually attempting usage
• If the version is always imported / made available what indicator would there be that the dep itself hasn't yet been pulled in?
  • Is this important?

AC

• TBD