z3c.checkversions 2.1

For installed packages

Example with a virtualenv:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages sandbox
$ sandbox/bin/pip install z3c.checkversions
$ sandbox/bin/checkversions -v -l 1
# Checking your installed distributions
pip=0.7.1 # was: 0.6.3

For a buildout

It can work either with a full buildout.cfg or with a simple versions.cfg file.

Here is a sample versions.cfg file:

[versions]
somepackage=0.5.3
otherpackage=0.1.1

You can generate a new versions.cfg

$ checkversions -v -l 1 versions.cfg
# Checking buildout file versions.cfg
somepackage=0.6.2 # was: 0.5.0
otherpackage=0.1.2 # was: 0.1.1

If you provide a blacklist file, such as blacklist.cfg containing bad versions, such as:

somepackage=0.6.2
somepackage=0.6.1

Then these versions won’t be suggested:

$ checkversions -v -l 1 versions.cfg -b blacklist.cfg
# Checking buildout file versions.cfg
somepackage=0.6.0 # was: 0.5.0
otherpackage=0.1.2 # was: 0.1.1

If you enable the –incremental option, only one upgrade will be suggested:

$ checkversions --incremental -v -l 1 versions.cfg
# Checking buildout file versions.cfg
somepackage=0.6.0 # was: 0.5.0
otherpackage=0.1.1

2.1 (2023-02-06)

• Fix parsing of versions that are really requirements specifications. (#24)

2.0 (2023-02-14)

• Add support for Python 3.10, 3.11.

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6.

• Pin setuptools < 66 as newer versions are no longer compatible.

1.2 (2020-04-13)

• Add support for Python 3.8, drop support for Python 3.4.

• Improve error message in case zc.buildout is not installed.

• Improve installation instruction.

• Pass the index url to both the ‘installed’ and ‘buildout’ checkers.

1.1 (2018-11-03)

• Add support for Python 3.7.

• Drop support for python setup.py test.

1.0 (2018-05-23)

• Fix compatibility with setuptools 39 by using an API introduced in setuptools 8. (GH #8)

• Add support for Python 3.5, 3.6 and PyPy3.

• Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.3.

• Standardize namespace __init__.

0.5 (2014-09-15)

• Python 3 support by Nicolas Dietrich (GH #2, GH #4)

0.4.2 (2013-10-02)

• ignore installed packages while searching for new versions, only look in the package index (makes the test suite more reliable, among other things).

• fix IndexError: list index out of range when buildout.cfg had a package with a blank version pin.

• show updates for non-final package versions, if there’s a newer non-final version available on PyPI (GH #1)

0.4.1 (2010-08-25)

• fixed edge case bug where 1.0 was never updated to 1.0.x

• warn buildout users about the extra requirement

0.4 (2010-07-26)

• added a blacklist option for passing versions to avoid (possibly coming from a buildbot)

• added a incremental option to suggest only one upgrade

• remove a temporary file during tests

0.3 (2010-07-09)

• don’t accumulate old comments

• prefer final versions

0.2 (2010-05-22)

• added a verbose option to print old versions as well

• updated metadata, doc and license

0.1 (2010-05-16)

• Initial release