Automatically Update editorconfig-checker

[Kurt-von-Laven]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Editorconfig-checker 2.4.0 was released on December 7th, 2021, but MegaLinter is still on editorconfig-checker 2.3.5.

Describe the solution you'd like
Include editorconfig-checker in automated updates.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Manually bump the version of editorconfig-checker one time.

Additional context
There could very well be a good reason not to automatically update editorconfig-checker that I lack context on (e.g., perhaps it broke us in the past).

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[Kurt-von-Laven]

I am beginning to suspect this may not be a MegaLinter issue so much as editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker.javascript#385. We use that npm package, which wraps editorconfig-checker itself, so maybe the npm package (in conjunction with some caching on our end?) is the cause of the editorconfig-checker version remaining at 2.3.5.

[nvuillam]

It seems there is a go installer, let's try it :)

go install github.com/editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker/cmd/editorconfig-checker@latest

[Kurt-von-Laven]

I may be overlooking the obvious, but I am reopening this issue, because the release of editorconfig-checker 2.5.0 does not appear to have been picked up by the automation. I know the Go installer was able to pick up the previous release (2.4.0) though.

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[bdovaz]

@nvuillam @Kurt-von-Laven I just checked this topic and I see that it is installed via a docker image:

https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/blob/main/megalinter/descriptors/editorconfig.megalinter-descriptor.yml#L28

The problem is that this image is not being updated....

https://hub.docker.com/r/mstruebing/editorconfig-checker/tags

It's on 2.4.0 and they're already on 2.6.0:

https://github.com/editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker/releases

Why don't we install it with go?

https://github.com/editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker#installation

In the case of actionlint we do it like this:

https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter/blob/main/megalinter/descriptors/action.megalinter-descriptor.yml#L32

[bdovaz]

@nvuillam #1830 why did you close it? I see you've tried this before....

Edit: I see... editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker#220

[nvuillam]

Alternative would be to use their docker image with a fixed version then manually update it, like we already do for some linters that do not provide @latest tags ... but we would loose the automatic update :)

Example: https://megalinter.io/latest/descriptors/terraform_tflint/#installation-on-mega-linter-docker-image

[echoix]

editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker#219 Was closed, docker image got published, and a GitHub action was added. Some pretty good maintenance was made in the last day or so.

[nvuillam]

latest is still one year old :/

[echoix]

He seems working on it today, and we see 2.7.0 out. So maybe wait for the week and see.

[echoix]

I was curious last weekend and told myself I'd like to play with goreleaser, a thing that seemed to block the repo and the maintainer wanted to have set up to solve a lot of problems. So I'm currently learning about it and see if I could make it work either way. Last weekend's reading had me thinking that it was a quite interesting project!

[rasa]

https://hub.docker.com/r/mstruebing/editorconfig-checker/tags now has tag 2.7.0 as latest. What needs to happen for this version to be used by megalinter?

[echoix]

A PR changing this line :)

megalinter/megalinter/descriptors/editorconfig.megalinter-descriptor.yml

Line 28 in f0fe070

- FROM mstruebing/editorconfig-checker:2.4.0 as editorconfig-checker

[echoix]

@rasa Do you happen to have a little Go packaging/module organization knowledge? I started working a couple weekends ago on helping that project have better CI releases, that will imply creating a v3 release, but what must be done (in regards to the namespace adding /v2 or /v3) when making major releases after v1?

See editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker#204 (comment),
with my branch being https://github.com/echoix/editorconfig-checker/tree/dev/goreleaser

[rasa]

@echoix I haven't worked much with goreleaser, but I'll check out your branch and see if I can help test/debug. Let's continue the discussion in editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker#204.

[echoix]

@rasa

@echoix I haven't worked much with goreleaser, but I'll check out your branch and see if I can help test/debug. Let's continue the discussion in editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker#204.

Great! At least it's not a GoReleaser help needed, it's plain Go concepts, since it was my first time using go (but not CI)