getting updates for sbt plugins

[mheese]

This is not really an issue, but a feature request: it would be extremely awesome if one could check sbt plugin updates with this sbt plugin as well.

[laughedelic]

You can easily do it by adding plugin to the "meta"-project so to say. For example, to add it globally, put in ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins/project/plugins.sbt the line

addSbtPlugin("com.timushev.sbt" % "sbt-updates" % "0.1.2")

Now in any project you can do (in sbt):

> reload plugins
> dependencyUpdates

then use reload return to return to the project.

Moreover, you can make an alias for that. Add to your ~/.sbt/0.13/global.sbt:

addCommandAlias("pluginUpdates", "; reload plugins; dependencyUpdates; reload return")

[mheese]

Awesome! Works like a charm! In my opinion this hint deserves a place in the README.md of this project.

[rtimush]

Nice trick, @laughedelic, thanks. I'm reopening the issue because it was in my plans to add a native task for plugin updates.

[pjean]

👍

[jkleckner]

👍

[analytically]

+1

[fommil]

+1 for easier native method, e.g. pluginDependencyUpdates

[erikkaplun]

+1 for pluginUpdates

[wookietreiber]

👍

[jedesah]

+1 for native pluginUpdates

[He-Pin]

+1