Best practice when download URLs of a tool changed

[bjoern-reetz]

What version?

any

Which command?

proto install ruff

What happened?

While I was using the proto 3rd party TOML plugin for ruff I realized it did not give me the latest version. Upon investigating I realized that the URLs to download the assets changed because the maintainers dropped the "v" prefix in their git tags from version 0.5.0 on.

I am not sure if proto TOML plugins support multiple URL schemes at the same time. Obviously I could write a new/seperate proto TOML plugin for ruff versions starting from 0.5.0. What is the best practice in this case?

Trace logs?

No response

Operating system?

Linux

Architecture?

x64

[milesj]

@bjoern-reetz Yeah TOML kind of assumes things are deterministic. The only option right now to support variation is to build a WASM plugin.

[bjoern-reetz]

Thank you for the clarification. While I already managed to succesfully build a TOML plugin for Proto myself, I currently don't feel capable of building a WASM-based Ruff plugin.

I talked to the maintainer of the original Ruff TOML plugin and he wished to keep his plugin backwards compatible. The only way I can see of making newer versions of Ruff available in Proto with TOML-based plugins is to build a new plugin while keeping the old one as-is.

I am aware that I could do this at any time without needing to bother you. I am mainly reaching out to you because off Ruffs plugin registry (both in Proto's documentation and via proto plugin search ruff).

Do you approve if I create a PR containing a replacement for the Ruff TOML plugin which only supports versions of Ruff >= 0.5.0?

[milesj]

@bjoern-reetz Yeah that seems fair. Maybe move the old ruff one into something like ruff-0.4?