Get "dependents" with specific version constraints about packagist

[Seldaek]

Yeah this is not so simple as you'd need to examine really the versions and whether the constraints intersect. E.g. you are interested in ^12 but what about something requiring 12.5.3, or >=11, or ~12.4, all those should be found too.

So this isn't something we can defer to the database, and it's thus way more cpu intensive to query. But yes we maybe could add a filter option.. It'd just maybe need to come with some restrictions on the amount of packages/versions we inspect. For sure looking only at the latest version of each minor release of each dependent would already reduce the dataset, if the original amount is too large.

[fe-hicking]

Thanks for your response! Yes I figured that is harder than it sounds. :-)

For TYPO3 development and most importantly for supporting it, it would be quite awesome if we have such a filter.

For certain features that may get deprecated or where a major bug is found, it would be cool if we could just automatically parse all matching "external" dependents on that package and maybe inform package authors specifically. Or just see, how many dependents use specific functionality that may change.

And developers may easier look up examples for specific versions of a dependency to see how "others do it".

(I've actually went the route and downloaded ALL dependents there, extracted latest releases, do a code-search on it. That might be a pro-feature idea for the private packagist maybe, which touches that)

[GuySartorelli]

FYI this is similar to (if not a duplicate of) #1048