Practical approach to keeping jQuery up to date?

Question

Some of the projects we\'re working on have strong roots in jQuery 1.4.2 or earlier, and somewhere between lacking the performance edge (or syntactic sugar) of the latest re

Answer 1

The Twitter guys have solved this problem quite nicely.

http://github.com/twitter/bower

It does what it says on the tin - it is a package manager for the web (and that includes keeping JS files like JQuery up to date)