I miss `@latest`

[davdroman]

I noticed my pkgx --version was quite old so I updated it and it's broken most of my shell aliases which relied on @latest as a valid version annotation for always running the latest version of a package.

I saw there's pkgx mash pkgx/upgrade to update but this is a separate action that needs to be called before the thing I actually want to call which kinda defeats the point of me using pkgx at all instead of say, brew.

I understand if this separation of concern is the way you want this project to evolve but as of right now I'm sadly considering switching back to brew as pkgx doesn't really give me anything substantially better for my use case of "I want all my aliases to use the latest and greatest available versions of all my tools in one simple command".

[mxcl]

I think we can support this again. It adds complexity to a bunch of paths as well as slowing down resolution since we have to do a network hop to check what is “latest”, but I agree it is useful and congruent.

Apologies that it took you by surprise.

[mxcl]

For now you can do pkgx pkgx^1 foo@latest. I will try to get this out this week

[davdroman]

Thanks @mxcl I appreciate your prompt response. Looking forward to getting this great feature back 😄

[mxcl]

v2.6.0 releasing today supports @latest in all cli-usages (except --query mode but this mode never does networking).