DomT4
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9 years ago Heroku Toolbelt is outdated.
Open a PR :wink:.
always points to the latest version.
Homebrew doesn't use these types of URLs because Homebrew has no control/detection over when they're changed/updated/etc, and consequently are borderline impossible to bottle, update and (perhaps more importantly) checksum.
There are various implementations around as to detecting en-mass when packages are updated, but there's nothing completely reliable, scalable or removing the need for human intervention at some point yet, to my knowledge at least.
@asparagui has probably the best implementation of something that makes en-mass update detection a more pleasant experience here, but it still requires a human to do the formulae changes and PR them.
jacknagel
Heroku Toolbelt is outdated.
Is there someway to make it so that Homebrew formulae autoupdate (by themselves)? Maybe some sort of public API, standard, machine learning, etc?
For example, for Heroku Toolbelt, the URL https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.heroku.com/heroku-client/heroku-client.tgz always points to the latest version.