Function update_notifier::check_version

pub fn check_version(
    name: &str, 
    current_version: &str, 
    interval: Duration
) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>>

Checks if there exists an update by checking against crates.io and notifies the user by printing to stdout

Arguments

• name - The name of the crate, you can use env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME")
• current_version - The version of the CLI, use env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")
• interval - Duration representing the interval.

Examples

use update_notifier::check_version;

check_version(
  env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"),
  env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"),
  std::time::Duration::from_secs(0),
  ).ok();

Errors

Could error either if your plateform does not have a config directory or if an the crate name is not in the registry