On 28.10.2012, at 20:10, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 29/10/2012, at 3:54 AM, Joern Huxhorn wrote: > >> I'm considering to write a plugin that checks for updates of all >> dependencies used in a (multi-)project. >> >> This is something that I currently do manually every once in a while and it >> is a rather cumbersome job that I'd therefore really like to see automated. >> >> The plan is to check for the maven-metadata, e.g. >> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/maven-metadata.xml for >> commons-io:commons-io, evaluating at least <lastUpdated> and ideally also >> <release> and <latest> but this would obviously only work for maven >> repositories. >> >> But ideally, this would be part of the already present Gradle dependency >> handling so it could also work with any other supported repository type. >> >> Is there any way to already retrieve such information from the Gradle API? > > If you just want to find the latest version of a given module, you can use a > regular dependency with version set to 'latest.integration' and then query > the result, something like this: > > def result = > configurations.detachedConfiguration(dependencies.create('some.group:some-module:latest.integration')) > def latestVersion = result.allModuleVersions.findResult { it.id.name == > 'some-module' : it.id.version : null } > > >> If not, are there any plans to add something along that line in the near >> future? > > Yes, we want to add a couple of things: > * list all the versions of a given module, optionally that meet some > criteria, such as status or matching a version range. > * fetch the meta-data for a given module version. > > Would you be interested in helping to add the pieces of the API that your > plugin needs? > This may help quite a bit already. Wasn't aware of 'latest.integration' at all. Just found it in 44.2.4 but must have overlooked it previously. I'll give it a shot with the info above (hopefully) pretty soon and will report back. Thanks & Cheers, Jörn. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
