[meta] How is the kickstart release flow?

[Arteneko]

This isn't an issue but more of a general question regarding how kickstart handles its releases.

I have a rust-based project and would like to be able to provide binaries for at least windows, linux, and macos.

The thing is, I don't really know how to structure and set up auto-build / auto-release / auto-assets-deployment on the release page.

Do you have a document, or would you accept to write a small paper on your setup?

[Keats]

This is actually something I'm experimenting with in #27 to use GH actions instead of appveyor/travis. It's not working yet but I'll make a blog post/template when it is.

The current setup is the same as this template: https://github.com/Keats/rust-cli-template

[Arteneko]

Thanks for the heads-up.

When you publish it, could you mention me somewhere?

Thanks

[Keats]

I'll ping you on this issue.

Any thoughts on #24 (comment) ?
I still need to see how exactly cookiecutter handles that.

[Keats]

well looks like the GH actions suck for release! I think I'll have to go back to travis/appveyor

[Arteneko]

That sucks... Which issues did you encounter while trying to work with GH actions?

[Keats]

It seems you can only upload one asset. In kickstart case, we want to upload linux/windows/osx builds and that seems to break. It's also missing basic CI stuff, maybe in a few months it will be good

[Arteneko]

I'm gonna steal this travis-ci build for my own project, then ;)

Thanks

[Keats]

I've switched to Azure Pipelines in the end. I'm using that for zola and it works well. You can check the azure-pipelines.yml file in master. The only annoying thing with setting it up is the atrocious UI/UX of the azure pipelines interface but you only need 5 minutes to set a project up and then never look at it again.

[Arteneko]

Thanks for the feedback.

I already tweaked a bit with Azure DevOps, so I'm kinda familiar with their system.

I tried to set up travis per your configuration, but their system really is weird and confusing, especially with their way of handling secrets, which is just bad imho.

[Keats]

And now Azure is buggy with releases >_>

microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks#11558
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks#9394

[Arteneko]

How is Azure now?

Also, since you don't use GH Actions, can you hide the tab, as to avoid any confusion for newcomers?

[Keats]

Azure is pretty good once it's setup. You can copy the config in this repo, change the names and it should work as a generic Rust release platform.

Also, since you don't use GH Actions, can you hide the tab, as to avoid any confusion for newcomers?

Thanks, I just removed it

[Arteneko]

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll probably use your configuration then!

Resolved imho.

[Arteneko]

Works nicely, thanks!