Merge this tool into homebrew-cask about homebrew-cask-upgrade HOT 4 CLOSED

Since 2013, brew cask upgrade has been discussed many times over on the Homebrew Cask issues. Many people have made their own scripts, such as Homebrew/homebrew-cask#23658 and these. They are all bash scripts and fragile. This tool is written in Ruby, but it is likewise fragile and not that stable as mentioned here (now this tool does update :latest things with --all option).

Of course, it would be very nice if this tool were merged into the Homebrew Cask, but I do think we need to make this stable, as well as add more features such as supporting --appdir option.

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If someone can explain the problem with :latest succinctly, I'm interested in hearing it... so I guess the issue is that :latest is used when there isn't a published version as noted in the instructions - can't we check against the sha256? as that will be updated as a new cask is uploaded?

I started adding a check for a matching sha (see my branch) it but it seems that the :no_check is pretty common - all of my unversioned packages lack a checksum. Still, it looks like the cask team will be moving towards more sha256 in the future, with a --require-sha option coming down the pipe.

also I'd like to see a quick way to upgrade one at a time through this rather than going through the whole install force thing.

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@buo:

     brew cask proper has actually had an upgrade sub-command since Homebrew/brew#3396 was merged into upstream's master branch with commit f50ae44, so I believe this issue can now be closed. What that means for the continued development and maintenance of this project remains up to you locals to decide.

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Closing this, will probably be never merged, already discussed with Homebrew maintainers (#95 (comment))

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