Description

Versions is an open source (GPL v3) software that checks releases and versions of your favorite programs through RSS or Atom feeds and tells you which one has been released since last check.

It can check projects from :

• github.com
• sourceforge.net
• freshcode.club
• pypi.python.org
• savanah.gnu.org
• www.freshports.org (FreeBSD packages)
• fossies.org
• repo.continuum.io

Projects must be added to a YAML file (named by default ~/.config/versions/versions.yaml). One can use --file=FILENAME option to specify an alternative YAML file. The structure of this YAML file is explained below.

Versions uses and produces text files. Those files are cache files written into ~/.local/versions directory. *.cache are cache files containing the project list and their associated version (the latest). *.feed are information feed cache files containing on each line the latest parsed post of the feed.

YAML file structure

sitename:
  url: "https://the.url/to/theglobalfeed"
  type: list
  projects:
    - list
    - of
    - projects

othersitename:
  url: "https://by.projects.site/{}.atom"
  type: byproject
  projects:
    - list
    - name: of
      regex: '([\d.]+)'
      entry: last checked
    - projects

There is two types of sites :

• 'list': The site has one feed with all projects in it such as freshcode.club or fossies.org
• 'byproject": The site gives access to one feed per project. brackets '{}' represents the name of the project as found in the 'project' list. Those projects can be listed directly or can take options. In the later case you have to name the project and then you can specify either a regex or an entry type option: regex is used to determine version number and entry is used to determine if versions has to print the latest entry (default behavior) or all entries from the "last checked" time.

Installation

In pypi the project is named program_versions but is still invoked by the command versions.

Usage

./version.py should be enough to bring you the list of updated programs since last run. To verify each day one can use the following command in a persistant terminal (tmux, screen…):

watch -n 86400 ./versions.py

Option -l or --list-cache prints the content of the local cache (ie latest known versions).

Option -f FILENAME or --file FILENAME ease usage of different YAML configuration files.

Option -d or --debug runs doctests and prints information about what's going on in the program.

Links of interest

• https://release-monitoring.org/
• https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch
• http://semver.org/