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I like how the rip deps file is a list of canonical URLs and tag/version numbers!

Question: How would I use rip to track the latest version of each dependency -- maybe one is a gem and so I want the latest gem on rubyforge, but another is a github repo + branch, and another is an obscure fork on gitorious. Is there a way that Rip can tell if there are newer versions of the libs available?

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There's no support for this currently, but maybe we should introduce syntax in the .rip file?

`latest` or `rip-latest` or some such?

that sounds awesome

Over in the Python world, pip supports a scheme for specifying either the package name on the main Python package index, or a combo of repo URL + name to install under. Works with SVN, hg and git repositories, IIRC, and lets you pin to specific points in the repository, which ends up being pretty useful if you want to develop against a consistent snapshot of a dependency.

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