[ANN]: PkgVersionHelper.jl - check if your [deps] packages are up to date

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See GitHub - xiaodaigh/PkgVersionHelper.jl

When developing packages, I often wonder Do I have the latest version of XYZ.jl? and then going to the github repo to check.

Now I can skip that step and just use

using PkgVersionHelper
upcheck()

This will look at my current environment’s Project.toml and return a

`Dict{String, Tuple{VersionNumber, VersionNumber}}`

where each key-value pair is

`PkgName => (installed_version, latest_version)`

if and only if latest_version > installed_version.

For example, this is the result of one of my runs:

julia> upcheck()
Dict{String,Tuple{VersionNumber,VersionNumber}} with 2 entries:
  "ScientificTypes" => (v"0.8.1", v"1.0.0")
  "MLJBase"         => (v"0.14.9", v"0.15.0")
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Are you looking at [compat] specifications? At first glance it didn’t seem to be something that you’re considering

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I think I see what you mean. I check for all installed packages not just those in compat. For me everything is in compat with an upper-bound. So they happened to be the same thing.

My description is not 100% accurate for the general case. Only for my case. OH well, there is always 0.1.1 when this gets registered.

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What I mean is this: suppose I create a package abcd with a Project.toml that lists

[deps]
Documenter = "e30172f5-a6a5-5a46-863b-614d45cd2de4"

[compat]
Documenter = "0.24"

Now if I run upcheck, I find

(@v1.5) pkg> activate .
 Activating environment at `~/Dropbox/JuliaPackages/abcd/Project.toml`

(abcd) pkg> st
Project abcd v0.1.0
Status `~/Dropbox/JuliaPackages/abcd/Project.toml`
  [e30172f5] Documenter v0.24.11

julia> using PkgVersionHelper

julia> upcheck()
Dict{String,Tuple{VersionNumber,VersionNumber}} with 1 entry:
  "Documenter" => (v"0.24.11", v"0.25.2")

I would have expected Documenter to be limited to 0.24 versions as 0.25 is a breaking change. Is this something that you’ll consider? Perhaps there might be an breaking = false keyword argument that one might pass to upcheck?

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I could. Also PR welcome. But finding breaking changes was my use case actually. I want to support them.

For me, I just do ] up to update to max of non-breaking anway.

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In a sense therefore this is a simpler alternative to CompatHelper?

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I’d say that rather than a simpler alternative to CompatHelper, it’s a tool that you can use locally for similar purposes (CompatHelper is primarily meant to interact with GitHub).

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In my case, CompatHelper.jl helps but is not a magic bullet. For example, I got alerted to one of my MLJ dependency was outdated. Cool. So let me test out if I can support it. But then I can’t upgrade to it since it’s blocked by another dependency.

Two weeks later when I want to look at the problem again. I would have forgotten about the CompatHelper PR. So a tool like this would be invaluable to help me discover what I need to update.

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I noticed that currently this warns about a package not being registered even for stdlib entries. I wonder if there’s a way to confirm if a package is in stdlib and ignore version checking for these?

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If you are wild enough to rely on Pkg internals you can do

julia> Pkg.Types.is_stdlib(UUID("9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"))
true
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There aren’t too many stdlib packages. I’d suggest probably just make that list by hand and add them as exclusions.

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version 0.1.1. PR welcome.

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exactly.

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fixed in latest update. Will push 0.1.1 once 0.1 is registered

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They change between different versions of Julia, I wouldn’t do that

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