Doesn't automatically check new version available

[yzenati]

Hello !

First, thank you for this project !
I was very disappointed by other framework, zimfw is so light and easy to configure/custom.

I am on macOS and I noticed that I have never seen a mention of a new version available as it is documented (every 30 days) and I didn't disable it.

Is it a normal behavior ?

Thanks !

[ericbn]

Hi @yzenati.

What's the output of the cat ${ZIM_HOME}/.latest_version command in your terminal?

Note that this check for a new version only applies to new versions of the zimfw plugin manager, not new versions of installed modules. The latest version of zimfw currently is 1.11.3.

[yzenati]

Ok, I look through the code, and I think that I misunderstood how this option works.
I thought it would run the same way as oh-my-zsh and display the message at terminal startup, but it seems it only prints the message when the command zimfw is called, am I right ?

Is there any way that the check could happen at shell startup ? How about trigger the _zimfw_version_checkor an equivalent inside the .zim/init.zsh ?

Last question, do you think it could be conceivable to find a way to also check if modules need to update too ? Is it technically verifiable using something like _zimfw_run_tool update way ?

What about writing a module to trigger those behaviors ?

[ericbn]

You're correct in your observations about the current behavior.

I can add an action to zimfw to check if a new version of zimfw is available. Checking if updates for the modules are available should be possible too. In case of git I guess we'll have to do fetch and then check if there are new commits in the specified or default branch.

[yzenati]

Oh yeah, that would be so great to have those features !

Thanks for your response !

[ericbn]

Released version 1.12.0 with a new zimfw check-version action that checks if a new version of zimfw is available, and a new zimfw check action that checks if updates for modules are available.

[yzenati]

Awesome ! Thank you very much !