@ocombe
if the output is too verbose (as it gives a very complete information on the aspect), it's likely we'll want to add an option to only print the version before this is merged, to improve dev-ex.

it's very verbose, and it takes a very long time, while the npm command is super fast and gives just what we need, I don't think we should change that for now 🙂

let's keep it open and add @davidfirst and @GiladShoham to the mix.
ideally id' like to use the same tool for all commands. so for now we can keep npm, but i would want to replace with bit. need to see about our options.

I'm good either way. It'd be nice to add an option to show only the remote version. Agree that it's too verbose. On my local it's not that slow, it takes 3 seconds.

@davidfirst We already have the _latest command, we can expose it as a public command and use it instead.

@GiladShoham , yes, we can do it. It'll probably require some work as it'll need to be implemented for HTTP.