Keep your Version Numbers in Sync with Cargo.toml
Rust projects typically reference the crate version number in several
places, such as the README.md
file. The version-sync
crate makes
it easy to add an integration test that checks that README.md
is
updated when the crate version changes.
Usage
Add this to your Cargo.toml
:
[]
= "0.9"
Then create a tests/version-numbers.rs
file with:
This integration test will ensure that the dependencies mentioned in
your README.md
file is kept in sync with your crate version and that
your html_root_url
points to the correct documentation on docs.rs.
If everything is well, the test passes:
$ cargo test
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.0 secs
Running target/debug/deps/version_numbers-504f17c82f1defea
running 2 tests
test test_readme_deps ... ok
test test_html_root_url ... ok
test result: ok. 2 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured
If the README or html_root_url
is out of sync with the crate
version, the tests fail. In this example, the version number in
Cargo.toml
has been changed to 0.2.0 while the README.md
and
html_root_url
remain unchanged. The tests now fail and the
problematic TOML code and attribute are shown:
$ cargo test
Finished debug [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.0 secs
Running target/debug/deps/version_numbers-f399bac3e468d035
running 2 tests
test test_readme_deps ... FAILED
test test_html_root_url ... FAILED
failures:
---- test_readme_deps stdout ----
Checking code blocks in README.md...
README.md (line 20) ... expected minor version 2, found 1 in
[dev-dependencies]
version-sync = "0.1"
thread 'test_readme_deps' panicked at 'dependency errors in README.md', tests/version-numbers.rs:6
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.
---- test_html_root_url stdout ----
Checking doc attributes in src/lib.rs...
src/lib.rs ... expected minor version 2, found 1 in
#![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/version-sync/0.1.3")]
thread 'test_html_root_url' panicked at 'html_root_url errors in src/lib.rs', tests/version-numbers.rs:11
failures:
test_html_root_url
test_readme_deps
test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 2 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured
error: test failed
Excluding TOML Code
You can add no_sync
to the language line in a code block to exclude
it from the checks done by assert_markdown_deps_updated!
:
```toml,no_sync
[dependencies]
your_crate = "0.1.2"
```
Release History
This is a changelog describing the most important changes per release.
Version 0.9.1 — July 7th, 2020
-
#91: Pull in fewer dependencies. This optimizes the build time by 1-2 seconds.
-
#92: Normalize
\r\n
to\n
to ensure^
and$
always match line boundaries.
Version 0.9.0 — March 30th, 2020
Drop support for Rust 1.31.0 since our dependencies keep releasing new
patch versions that push up the minimum required Rust version. These
updates mean that version-sync
0.8.1 no longer compiles with Rust
1.31.0 because cargo sync
will pull in too new versions of the
direct and transitive dependencies. This happens even if there are no
changes in version-sync
.
The constant build failures in our CI makes it infeasible to keep
version-sync
compatible with any particular version of Rust. We will
therefore track the latest stable version of Rust from now on.
At the time of writing, the code compiles with Rust 1.36, but this will likely become outdated soon.
Issues closed:
- #83: version_sync fails to parse toml blocks when inside blockquotes
- #84: Release update to crates.io with syn 1.0
Version 0.8.1 — April 3rd, 2019
Dependencies were relaxed to make it easier to upgrade version-sync
.
Version 0.8.0 — March 28th, 2019
We now use Rust 2018, which means we require Rust version
1.31.0 or later. The assert_html_root_url_updated!
macro will again
report accurate line numbers based on span information from the syn
crate.
Version 0.7.0 — January 14th, 2019
Special characters are now correctly escaped in the {name}
and
{version}
placeholders in assert_contains_regex!
.
Dependencies were updated and version-sync
now requires Rust version
1.27.2 or later.
Version 0.6.0 — November 22nd, 2018
You can use assert_contains_regex!
to grep files for the current
version number. The search is done with a regular expression where
{version}
is replaced with the current version number.
Git dependencies are now always accepted, which means that blocks like
```toml
[dependencies]
your_crate = { git = "..." }
```
will work without you having to add no_sync
.
Issues closed:
- #17: Allow to check non-markdown sources
- #39: Version 0.5 requires Rust version 1.21.0
- #42: Handle Git dependencies
Version 0.5.0 — November 19th, 2017
Dependencies were updated and version-sync
now requires Rust version
1.21 or later.
Error messages from assert_html_root_url_updated!
now again include
line numbers (based on a heuristic until the syn
crate can provide
the information).
Version 0.4.0 — November 1st, 2017
This release replaces the dependency on the abandoned syntex_syntax
with with a dependency on the much lighter syn
crate. This improves
compilation speed. Unfortunately, the syn
crate does not provide
information about line numbers, so error messages are are no longer as
good. We might be able to work around that in a later version.
Version 0.3.1 — September 26th, 2017
This release fixes a small problem with the handling of pre-release identifiers.
Issues closed:
- #19: Pre-release identifiers were ignored.
Version 0.3.0 — September 23rd, 2017
When checking dependencies in READMEs, TOML blocks can now be excluded
from the check by adding no_sync
to the language line:
```toml,no_sync
[dependencies]
your_crate = "0.1"
```
This TOML block will not be checked. This is similar to no_run
for
Rust code blocks.
Version 0.2.0 — September 20th, 2017
Added assert_html_root_url_updated!
which will check that the
html_root_url
attribute points to the correct version of the crate
documentation on docs.rs.
Version 0.1.3 — September 18th, 2017
First public release with support for finding outdated version numbers
in dependencies
and dev-dependencies
.
Versions 0.1.0 to 0.1.2 were released under the name check-versions
.
License
Version-sync can be distributed according to the MIT license. Contributions will be accepted under the same license.