Add support for Crystal

[watzon]

Crystal, for those who don't know, is a statically typed and compiled language with a syntax very similar to Ruby. For dependencies it uses a file called shard.yml, the spec for which can be found here. Hopefully adding support won't be overly difficult.

[greysteil]

Totally 👍 on adding Crystal support.

[alexanderadam]

No need to close it. It's still relevant. 😉

[watzon]

Agreed. We need to get some more community support behind this though

[rebelagentm]

👋 The Dependabot team is swamped scaling for GitHub at the moment, so it will, unfortunately, be a while before we can get to adding enhancements like this. If someone wants to submit a PR adding support for this, we'll be happy to take review it as soon as we can.

[watzon]

I figured that would be the case. Hopefully someone looking for a project to help the Crystal community out will be willing to jump in and give it a go

[alexanderadam]

I've setup a test repository with outdated dependencies in case you need something to test.
I created it for the corresponding renovatebot issue but dependabot folks naturally can work with it as well.

[caspiano]

Any progress on this? I'd be happy to attempt to contribute!

[jurre]

Appreciate the offer @caspiano but we've currently put a pause on adding new ecosystems to dependabot-core as we beef up support for the current offering.

[caspiano]

Bummer! Nonetheless, I can't wait 😊

[grepsedawk]

It's been awhile since the beef up, if there's anything I can do to help out please do reach out :)

[kevin-atnos]

Hi there, still no news about Crystal support? :)

[alexanderadam]

Hi there, still no news about Crystal support? :)

I have the feeling that it's more likely to have Renovate being able to handle Crystal.

But let's see 🤞

[Blacksmoke16]

In light of #8844, does that imply a PR would be accepted to support shards?