Hello,
I came into Rust from a Ruby world.
In a Ruby world there is Rubygems. It has webhooks mechanism which allow you to be notified on library updates.
I used this webhook to build a simple system that notified me in Slack whenever a newer version of library I used was published.
It is very home-level project and it works like the following:
- There is simple API to upload Gemfile.lock file (analog of Cargo.lock)
- Dependencies and their versions are being fetched from the file and stored into database
- Once the app receives a request via webhook it compares version and notifies me if a newer version is published.
So, the whole thing is my home-level Gemnasium (which was acquired by GitLab)
I would like to build something similar for my Rust apps.
I believe it would allow me to stay up to date.
And maybe I could make this general enough to be useful for others
As far as I can see crates.io doesn't have webhooks.
Is there any API I could use to check for updates by myself?
Or maybe there are similar projects already?
Please, tell what do you think about that?
Thank you.