- At the AGM we formed an ad-hoc documentation working group.
- One of our ideas was that we should have a last reviewed date for
documentation, so that we can periodically implement a review
mechanism (GitHub Actions posts to Slack for a regular documentation
outdatedness check?) to track how old docs are and ensure they're
still relevant.
- This is a first step towards that goal, by adding a `last_review_date`
to the metadata of all docs with a date of earlier than Homebrew's
inception because everything needs reviewing so that we start from a
good base!
We discussed the idea of adding a livecheck strategy to check crate
versions years ago but decided to put it off because it would have
only applied to one formula at the time (and it wasn't clear that a
crate was necessary in that case). We now have a few formulae that
use a crate in the `stable` URL (`cargo-llvm-cov`, `pngquant`,
`oakc`) and another formula with a crate resource (`deno`), so
there's some value to the idea now.
I established a standard approach for checking crate versions in a
somewhat recent `pngquant` `livecheck` block update and this commit
reworks it into a strategy, so we won't have to duplicate that
`livecheck` block in these cases. With this strategy, we usually
won't even need a `livecheck` block at all.
Under normal circumstances, a regex and/or strategy block shouldn't
be necessary but the strategy supports them when needed. The response
from the crates.io API is a JSON object, so this uses
`Json#versions_from_content` internally and a `strategy` block will
receive the parsed `json` object and a regex (the strategy default or
the regex from the `livecheck` block).
The `strategy` block example for `GithubReleases` in the
`brew livecheck` documentation should be using `release` inside the
`#map` block instead of `json`. I accidentally overlooked one instance
of `json` when adapting the code from the `GithubLatest` example above
it.
This adds a generic `Yaml` strategy to livecheck that requires a
`strategy` block to operate. The YAML-parsing code is taken from the
existing approach in the `ElectronBuilder` strategy.
We don't currently have any `strategy` blocks in first-party taps
that manually parse YAML. However, creating a generic `Yaml` strategy
allows us to simplify `ElectronBuilder` (and any future strategy
that works with YAML) while making it easy to create custom `Yaml`
`strategy` blocks in formulae/casks as needed.
This adds a generic `Xml` strategy to livecheck that requires a
`strategy` block to operate. The XML-parsing code is taken from the
existing approach in the `Sparkle` strategy. As such, `Sparkle` has
been updated to use the `Xml#parse_xml` method instead.
Unlike the `Json` strategy, we don't currently have any `strategy`
blocks in first-party taps that manually parse XML. However, we had a
user request support for something like this and I was already working
on an `Xml` strategy (as a way of extracting the XML-parsing code
from `Sparkle` into something general-purpose), so here we are.
Future strategies that parse simple XML data can potentially use the
`Xml#find_versions` method (similar to how we have strategies that
leverage `PageMatch#find_versions`) instead of having to implement
something bespoke like `Sparkle`.
This adds a generic `Json` strategy to livecheck that requires a
`strategy` block to operate. This is primarily intended as a
replacement for existing `strategy` blocks in formulae/casks that
use `JSON#parse`, as it allows us to internalize/standardize that
boilerplate while improving error-handling.
Additionally, future strategies that parse JSON data can use the
`Json#find_versions` method instead of having to reinvent the wheel
(similar to how we currently have a number of strategies that
leverage `PageMatch#find_versions`).
