On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:36:28PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
[...] Well, lots of people already do this, via urlwatch or pkgbuild-urlwatch. I think the idea was supposed to be, finding a way to do this without introducing complex tricks that need to be manually added to the PKGBUILD and then fragilely parsed.
-- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
Repology[1] has taken the approach of comparing the versions in various repositories (as well as some other sources like PyPi). Their parser collection[2] could maybe be a source of inspiration. [1] https://repology.org/ [2] https://github.com/repology/repology/tree/master/repology/parsers -- Simon Doppler (dopsi) E: dopsi@dopsi.ch AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dopsi GitHub: https://github.com/dopsi PGP: DE9F 7688 CACF 04FE B81A 6C59 0AEE C907 55DA 7B5A