chore: small tool to check latest library versions

.docker/check_lib_versions.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import requests
+
+# List of GitHub repositories in 'author/project' format
+repositories = [
+    "libarchive/libarchive",
+    "xiph/flac",
+    "libunwind/libunwind",
+    "google/benchmark",
+    "openssl/openssl",
+    "jeremy-rifkin/cpptrace",
+    "google/double-conversion",
+    "fmtlib/fmt",
+    "google/glog",
+    "Cyan4973/xxHash",
+    "lz4/lz4",
+    "google/brotli",
+    "facebook/zstd",
+    "libfuse/libfuse",
+]
+
+# Function to fetch the latest release information for a repository
+def get_latest_release(repo):
+    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{repo}/releases/latest"
+    response = requests.get(url)
+
+    if response.status_code == 200:
+        release = response.json()
+        tag_name = release['tag_name']
+        release_date = release['published_at']
+        return tag_name, release_date
+    else:
+        print(f"Failed to fetch data for {repo}")
+        return None, None
+
+# Fetch the latest release information for each repository
+for repo in repositories:
+    version, release_date = get_latest_release(repo)
+    if version and release_date:
+        [author, project] = repo.split('/')
+        date = release_date.split('T')[0]
+        version = version.replace(f"{project}-", "").lstrip('v')
+        project = project.replace('-', '_').upper()
+        version_var = f"{project}_VERSION={version}"
+        print(f"{version_var:<40} # {date}")