version-enforcer

Enforce software version compliance.

Installation, example • Usage • Configuration • TODO • License

version-enforcer is a tool that enforces software version compliance. It is a simple tool that can be used in CI pipelines and developer hosts to ensure that the correct versions of software are installed.

Installation, example

This will install version-enforcer to your GOPATH, which by default is ~/go.

go install -v github.com/asimihsan/version-enforcer@0.0.8

Then create a config file:

tee version-enforcer.hcl <<EOF > /dev/null
binary "git" {
  version = "~2"
}
binary "make" {
  version = "^4.2.1"
}
EOF

Finally, run version-enforcer:

version-enforcer --config version-enforcer.hcl

Usage

$ version-enforcer --help

Enforce tool versions

Usage:
  enforce --config <config file> [flags]

Flags:
      --config string   config file (e.g. version-enforcer.hcl)
  -h, --help            help for enforce
  -v, --verbose         verbose output

For example, you could run:

$ version-enforcer --config version-enforcer.hcl

Configuration

Here is an example configuration file that specifies that

• make must be exactly 4.2.1, and
• git must be between >= 2.0.0 and < 3.0.0.

binary "git" {
  version = "~2"
}

binary "make" {
  version = "^4.2.1"
}

The requirement specifications follow https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html.

TODO

• Add support for library requirements.
• Output binary path in error messages.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.