mix hex.outdated: parsable output

[NobbZ]

For easier integration in periodically run CI jobs, it would be nice if there were some flag for mix hex.outdated that would give output in JSON format or something thats easily digestable using standard bash tools.

{
  "credo": {
    "current": "0.8.10",
    "latest": "1.1.4",
    "updatable": false
  },
  "flow": {
    "current": "0.12.0",
    "latest": "0.14.3",
    "updatable": true
  }
}

Or shell parsable (important, only single space delimeter, no alignment and no table head)

credo 0.8.10 1.1.4 No
flow 0.12.0 0.14.3 Yes

[ericmj]

What you would use this for, do you have a use case for it right now?

[NobbZ]

Not me, but someone in the slack mentioned that they where in need for an output that's easier parsable then the current.

[ericmj]

Please ask them to describe the issue and their use case for the output. We would like to avoid implementing features if we don't know there is use case.

[NobbZ]

The use case was to get notified by a service or a CI job that dependencies are updatable. They also mentioned Gemnasium from the Ruby world that offers notification as a service.

I might though try to find the user again and point them to the issue, such that they can specify their requirements with their words.

[ericmj]

What I am asking is if there is an existing application or service that would parse this output? It would be great to look at an example so that we know we are implementing the right thing.

[ericmj]

Closing due to inactivity. If you have any additional input I will reopen.