How to track an updates to a 3party libraries?

Newsgroups	comp.programming
Date	2014-03-17 00:12 -0700
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Subject	How to track an updates to a 3party libraries?
From	Alexander Artemenko <svetlyak.40wt@gmail.com>

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As a software developer, I use many 3-party libraries in my daily job. Mostly, they are python libraries, but I think this theme should be language agnostic.

In python, we could store project's dependencies in different ways. They could be stated in the setup.py file or in pip's requirements.txt file. Some programmers prefer to pin exact version numbers some are not. I'm belonging to the first group.

Although pinning exact version numbers keeps me from accidental update to a backward incompatible versions, it also keeps me from updating (and more importantly from discovering) to a bug/security fixes, introduced in these new versions.

What do you use to follow 3-party libraries updates? How to solve this problem and keep on a bleeding edge?

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How to track an updates to a 3party libraries? Alexander Artemenko <svetlyak.40wt@gmail.com> - 2014-03-17 00:12 -0700
  Re: How to track an updates to a 3party libraries? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2014-03-17 05:42 -0700
    Re: How to track an updates to a 3party libraries? Alexander Artemenko <svetlyak.40wt@gmail.com> - 2014-03-17 23:52 -0700
      Re: How to track an updates to a 3party libraries? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2014-03-18 10:13 -0700

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