Option to only get n latest versions of matching packages.

[analog-cbarber]

As new versions of packages are released, mirroring a channel from the same spec using '>=' version specifiers will pull in more and more packages. But the user may be satisfied with only the more recent versions.

We could add an option to specify that you should only take the latest n versions of each package that passes the filter. We may also want to consider options to control whether to pick up dev versions (and how many).

[FordMustang0288]

This is something I have spent all morning trying to find. Is there any ETA on when this might happen?

[analog-cbarber]

I believe the maintainer is currently off for the summer, so no pull requests are being processed right now. Once my current pull requests have been accepted and merged, I will probably work on this next.

I have no idea when there will be another release.

[analog-cbarber]

Perhaps:

• --latest option that takes an optional number of recent versions to take. This will not include dev versions unless there are no non-dev versions.

• --latest-dev option that takes an optional number of recent dev versions to take.

[analog-cbarber]

There is a working version of this feature on the ag-latest and ag-dev branches of my fork. The ag-latest branch only has this feature, while ag-dev includes the other yet-to-be-merged pull requests.

[zinal]

Hello! I've created a pull request with the commit from @analog-cbarber shown above, as it merges cleanly, looks good and works great. Please merge it to the next release of the tool, that small commit will be a BIG thing.