Find newer package versions on PyPI
Project description
Introduction
Find newer versions of your installed Python packages, or newer versions of packages in a buildout file.
This package provides a console script named checkversions.
Install
you can install this package either in a virtualenv:
$ virtualenv sandbox $ sandbox/bin/pip install z3c.checkversions $ sandbox/bin/checkversions --help
or in your system:
$ sudo pip install z3c.checkversions $ checkversions --help
or in a buildout:
[buildout] parts = checkversions [checkversions] recipe=zc.recipe.egg eggs=z3c.checkversions [buildout]
Note that buildout support is optional and must be enabled with [buildout] so that zc.buildout is installed as well.
If you need buildout support while installing this package via pip you have to install it like this:
pip install z3c.checkversions[buildout]
Usage
$ checkversions -h
Usage: checkversions [-v] [-1] [-l LEVEL] [-i INDEX] [-b BLACKLIST] [buildout_file]
This script will check new package versions of either your current installed
distributions or a buildout file if provided. It can detect major or minor
versions availability: level 0 gets the highest version (X.y.z), level 1 gets
the highest intermediate version (x.Y.z), level 2 gets the highest minor
version (x.y.Z). Using level 2, you can automatically retrieve all bugfix
versions of a buildout. If you provide a blacklist file with bad versions,
these versions won't be suggested.
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l LEVEL, --level=LEVEL
Version level to check
-i INDEX, --index=INDEX
Provide and alternative package index URL
-b BLACKLIST, --blacklist=BLACKLIST
Provide a blacklist file with bad versions
-1, --incremental Suggest only one upgrade. Skip others.
-v, --verbose Verbose mode (prints old versions too)
Examples
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
Run tests
Uncompress the archive, then run:
$ virtualenv . $ bin/pip install tox $ tox
Changelog
3.0 (2025-04-14)
Replace pkg_resources namespace with PEP 420 native namespace.
2.2 (2025-04-09)
Add support for Python 3.12, 3.13.
Drop support for Python 3.7, 3.8.
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)
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
