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Automate getting updates #9390

Closed diepoe closed 3 years ago

diepoe commented 3 years ago

Feature suggestion

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I think it would be very nice if you could automate the update process in the way, that a program automatic searches for new updates in the background so that you won't have to replace the older version automatically.

A detailed description of the proposed feature

Maybe you could run something like a GitHub workflow that searches one time at a day/a week for newer version of the brew packages/casks and replaces the older versions automatically with the newer ones.

The motivation for the feature

I think this could reduce the work of the maintainers/developers a lot because you haven't to upgrade all the packages manually.

How the feature would be relevant to at least 90% of Homebrew users

I think this feature could be relevant for the most home-brew users in the way that if that is working they can get the updates for their programs much faster. (f.e. I can install since more than 1 week manually an new iterm2 update and at the cli it don't update)

What alternatives to the feature have been considered

A alternative is to continue the current workflow of keeping homebrew programs up to date.

Rylan12 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. There's already an open issue for this (https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/5725) so I'm going to close this one.

I haven't heard complaints from other maintainers about this being an issue, so I'm not sure we need to implement such a feature. As far as I know, we do a pretty good job of keeping packages up to date. In general, we rely on contributors as well as maintainers to open PRs to update versions, so if there's a specific formula that you would like to have updated that prompted this, I'd encourage you to open a PR to update the formula. There's some pretty helpful documentation available and the brew bump-formula-pr command makes it very easy.

This general functionality already exists with the brew livecheck command (especially when combined with brew bump-formula-pr). I believe that some maintainers may even have what you're suggesting running in the cloud somewhere (possibly in a GitHub action).