Depot

Find newer versions of your dependencies in your deps.edn file using the Clojure CLI. This works for maven and git dependencies.

Usage

You can try it out easily with this one liner:

$ clojure -Sdeps '{:deps {olical/depot {:mvn/version "1.3.0"}}}' -m depot.outdated.main

|          Dependency | Current | Latest |
|---------------------+---------+--------|
| org.clojure/clojure |   1.8.0 |  1.9.0 |

I'd recommend adding depot as an alias in your own deps.edn file, this will allow it to check itself for updates:

Note: Replace the ellipsis with the current version shown above.

{:deps {}
 :aliases {:outdated {:extra-deps {olical/depot {:mvn/version "..."}}
                      :main-opts ["-m" "depot.outdated.main"]}}}

$ clojure -Aoutdated -a outdated

|   Dependency | Current | Latest |
|--------------+---------+--------|
| olical/depot |   ..... |  ..... |

Updating deps.edn

To automatically update the versions in deps.edn, use --update.

$ clojure -m depot.outdated.main --update
Updating: deps.edn
  rewrite-clj {:mvn/version "0.6.0"} -> {:mvn/version "0.6.1"}
  cider/cider-nrepl {:mvn/version "0.17.0"} -> {:mvn/version "0.18.0"}
  clj-time {:mvn/version "0.14.4"} -> {:mvn/version "0.15.1"}
  olical/cljs-test-runner {:sha "5a18d41648d5c3a64632b5fec07734d32cca7671"} -> {:sha "da9710b389782d4637ef114176f6e741225e16f0"}

This will leave any formatting, whitespace, and comments intact. It will update both the top level deps and any :aliases / :extra-deps. To prevent Depot from touching certain parts of your deps.edn, mark them with the ^:depot/ignore metadata.

{:deps {...}

 :aliases
 {;; used for testing against older versions of Clojure
  :clojure-1.8 ^:depot/ignore {:extra-deps
                               {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.8.0"}}}
  :clojure-1.9 ^:depot/ignore {:extra-deps
                               {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.9.0"}}}}}

--update by default looks for deps.edn in the current working directory. You can instead pass one or more filenames in explicitly.

$ clojure -m depot.outdated.main --update ../my-project/deps.edn

Existing work

This project is inspired by lein-ancient, it relies on version-clj (by the same author, xsc) for parsing and comparison of version numbers.

Ideas

Here's a few things I'd like to add some day, feel free to discuss or suggest more:

• Searching for dependencies.

Unlicenced

Find the full unlicense in the UNLICENSE file, but here's a snippet.

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

Do what you want. Learn as much as you can. Unlicense more software.