dbt-external-tables is incompatible with dbt v0.18

[vogt4nick]

I propose a change to require only dbt-utils >=0.4.0. Currently dbt-external-tables requires dbt-utils >=0.4.0, <0.6.0.

https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt-external-tables/blob/3f094ff90af11ea5e671fcdc696e6c8c4097aa54/packages.yml#L1-L3

It'd be useful to use dbt-external-tables with dbt v0.18 and dbt-utils v0.6, but the transitive requirements on dbt-utils make dbt-external-tables incompatible with dbt v0.18. AFAICT, dbt-external-tables does not need to enforce the v0.6 requirement on dbt-utils.

I may be totally wrong about this; I don't know much about the inner workings about dbt myself. I'll make a PR, but I'm hoping to get some feedback from a project owner to help me verify that dbt-external-tables is not affected by the breaking changes introduced in dbt v0.18 or dbt-utils v0.6.

Resources

• dbt v0.18.0 release notes
• dbt-utils v0.6.0 release notes

[jtcohen6]

Right on, @vogt4nick! This is on our to-do list :) I think we'll be able to just bump the utils requirement to

     version: [">=0.4.0", "<0.7.0"] 

[vogt4nick]

Wonderful! I'll hold out for that change to dbt-utils and close this issue then 😄 Thanks for the fast response!