Non Archive Links!

In this latest update to Lookout we've added support for non-archive release links. In versions prior to this release, Lookout would blindly return the new archive link of an updated package. However, many users are looking for updated versions of release assets instead of a tarball of the source code. In these cases we now attempt to match the style of the link provided to Lookout with the new version information.

For example if lookout is provided with the link,

https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases/download/v3.6.4/singularity-3.6.4.tar.gz

it will now generate and test for the existence of

https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases/download/v3.7.2/singularity-3.7.2.tar.gz

instead of returning the archive link.

https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/archive/v3.7.2.tar.gz

Changelog:

• Add support for cli-ng v2.
• Add initial support for self updating Lookout Binary.

Changelog:

• Added a warning when attempting to check GitHub without a Token (Thank you @vsoch)
• Removed the Christmas Coloring from the info command (Thank you @vsoch)
• Updated Cuppa Dependency to include better parsing of release times on GitHub
• Moved the GitHub key setting out of an init function to allow for better use of the Lookout Update package as a library.

Changelog:

• Updated Cuppa and related dependencies to fix translation compilation bugs.

Since releasing Lookout two months ago, we've been testing it against larger and larger collections. In some of those tests, running a multi-threaded full scan would occasionally cause a database lockup and crash the application. As a result, Lookout will now read the full database into memory, which we have found to have an almost immeasurable impact on memory usage and performance, before then distributing the update tasks to the worker threads.

Changelog:

• updated command line interface to prevent memory leak.
• fixed database lock on very large collections.

This has been a while in the making but everyone, meet Lookout, a command line tool built to help make the process of maintaining packages easier.

Changelog:

• added command line interface.
• added database management system.
• added configuration system.
• added update tracking system.
• added yaml import system.
• added user interface library.