Cookbook ideas for semver

[KodrAus]

Come up with ideas for nice introductory examples of using the semver crate, possibly in combination with other crates, that would be good to show in the Rust Cookbook. Please leave a comment here with your ideas! You don't necessarily have to write the example code yourself but PRs are always welcome!

• Parse and modify a version string
• Parse a complex version string
• Check if given version is pre-release
• Find the latest version satisfying given range
• Check external command version for compatibility

[budziq]

Possibly a good place to start is in the crate reverse dependencies

One application that comes right away is:

• check version of external command - i.e. parse output of "$my_binnary --version" external command
• parse a complex version string ("1.0.49-125+g72ee7853" please note "pre" and "build metadata")

[KodrAus]

What about:

• parse and increment the major, minor or patch version based on input? (That's almost a 1-liner though)
• find the latest version in a set that satisfies the given range (like docs.rs does in its urls)

[convoliution]

Would these examples go into a new, "Semantic Versioning" section of the Cookbook, or the like?
("Crate Development", perhaps?)

[budziq]

@mykalu for now we will go with "Application development" and then split off some examples to new section when there are enough of examples sharing some theme.

[convoliution]

semver is not currently filed under any category on crates.io. I'm looking at the Configuration category as a likely fit, but it's probably not my place to make a call on that. Any thoughts?

[budziq]

@mykalu Sound great to me! Any how it is easy enough to change and the crate will have a category added as the result of the Libz Blitz (would you like to propose your suggestion on their evaluation thread?).

[convoliution]

@budziq Sounds good, will do!

[anna-liao]

@KodrAus @budziq Just wondering, what is the etiquette if I am interested in working on a claimed issue that hasn't had an update in awhile?

[KodrAus]

@anna-liao Feel free to jump on any issues that have been idle for a while!

[budziq]

@anna-liao just ping me and the author mentioning that you would like to work on the issue from now on.

[AndyGauge]

All of the recommended recipes are merged. There's no outstanding discussions here, I'm closing the tracking issue.