various enhancements

DESCRIPTION

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Imports:
     cli (>= 3.6.0),
     desc (>= 1.2),
     gh,
+    jsonlite,
     pkgcache (>= 2.1.0),
     pkgdepends (>= 0.5.0),
     rcmdcheck,
@@ -31,8 +32,10 @@ Suggests:
     pingr,
     testthat (>= 3.0.4)
 Config/Needs/verdepcheck:
+    r-lib/cli,
     r-lib/desc,
     r-lib/gh,
+    jeroen/jsonlite,
     r-lib/pkgcache,
     r-lib/pkgdepends,
     r-lib/rcmdcheck,

NAMESPACE

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ S3method(get_release_date,remote_ref)
 S3method(get_release_date,remote_ref_cran)
 S3method(get_release_date,remote_ref_github)
 S3method(get_release_date,remote_ref_standard)
+S3method(get_version,remote_ref)
 S3method(solve_ip,deps_installation_proposal)
 S3method(solve_ip,min_isolated_deps_installation_proposal)
 export(check_ip)
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ export(get_ref_min)
 export(get_ref_min_incl_cran)
 export(get_ref_release)
 export(get_release_date)
+export(get_version)
 export(install_ip)
 export(max_deps_check)
 export(min_cohort_deps_check)
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ importFrom(cli,symbol)
 importFrom(desc,desc)
 importFrom(gh,gh)
 importFrom(gh,gh_gql)
+importFrom(jsonlite,fromJSON)
 importFrom(pkgcache,cran_archive_list)
 importFrom(pkgcache,meta_cache_list)
 importFrom(pkgcache,ppm_repo_url)

R/desc_utils.R

@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ desc_cond_set_refs <- function(d, refs) {
 desc_to_ip <- function(d, config) {
   temp_desc <- tempfile()
   d$write(temp_desc)
+  cli::cli_alert_info(paste0("Creating temporary DESCRIPTION file: ", cli::col_blue(temp_desc)))
 
   pkgdepends::new_pkg_installation_proposal(
     refs = paste0("deps::", temp_desc),