[Feature Request] Only install bower packages if there is a newer version

[dotnetCarpenter]

I'm not sure if this can be done but it would be nice if grunt-bower-task could keep track of what versions is installed and not update if the current version is the newest. grunt-bower-task should keep track of this outside the project directory, e.g. in a file inside node_modules/grunt-bower-task. I realize that, sometimes you want to do re-installs, regardless. But it would be a nice option to have.

Should work with cleanup: true option.

[ChrisC]

+1

[AndrewDryga]

I think you can try grunt "newer" package

[dotnetCarpenter]

@AndrewDryga What do you mean?

[AndrewDryga]

Usually this package works to process only newer files (but I didn't tryed it with bower): https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-newer