Question Regarding older var-files and automatic updating?

[subs4]

I used to get dependancies manually for a while until I noticed how handy the built in feature is for hub hosted ones. What surprised me though is how many older versions it downloaded if they were still hosted.

This had me wondering, isn't the ".latest" always good and backwards compatible or do some resources actually specifically reference and need an older version? I could trim my addon folder a lot if they can be safely deleted but then it'd also be great to have an updater that did not load obsolete versions and maybe even removed the ones it updates.

 

[SlimerJSpud]

In general, plugin dependencies use exact versions. All other assets should use .latest, but it varies. There is a Python script that's very useful for figuring out which versions aren't used by anything. If you have several versions of something, feed that name into the script and it will tell you at the bottom which versions are actually needed by something. I move flagged vars that aren't needed into a holding area outside of AddonPackages. If they show up as missing dependencies, I put them back.

Script for listing all dependencies

For a while I've been thinking of making a script that can list all dependencies in all vars and presets, or list which vars depend on a specific var. After getting inspired by le_hibous pyhton script (https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/too-many-heap-sections.38525/#post-108718), I finally got...

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