Is it possible to checkout latest release?

[itsdeadguy]

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mini.deps

Question

i currently use blink.cmp and install it like so

MiniDeps.add({
    source = "saghen/blink.cmp",
    depends = { "rafamadriz/friendly-snippets", "xzbdmw/colorful-menu.nvim", "folke/lazydev.nvim" },
    checkout = "v1.5.1",
  })

I know i can remove the checkout line and always pull latest commit, but in the case of this plugin that would mean building it every time and i don't want to do that. I know lazy can do something like version = '1.*' but this isn't possible with deps (i get error 129?).
So as per the title, is there a way to always pull the latest release, or the 1.* or something to that effect?

Thank you

[echasnovski]

I am afraid the answer is a "No, not at the moment". This is possible with the future built-in plugin manager vim.pack (currently present on Nightly and is planned to be part of a future Neovim 0.12 stable release) by supplying vim.version.Range instead of branch/tag/commit string. With this in mind, I currently don't think porting this feature to 'mini.deps' makes too much sense. But it might change in the future. See #1888 for more details.

The best solution with 'mini.deps' is to indeed freeze plugin to a specific tag and manually look at monitor log from the default branch at every :DepsUpdate to see if there are new tags mentioned (they will be explicitly shown to the right of commit author name).

[itsdeadguy]

i heard about vim.pack, excited to try it once it lands on stable.

thanks again!