nominated zig

[mangas]

Seems fairly common that projects follow the mach nominated zig versions, I wonder if it could be interesting to add both a stable and nominated versions which could translate to latest stable and nominated respectively.

Could zigup also provide a zls binary for both these versions? (Optionally via cli args)

[marler8997]

Yeah I think having some sort of nominated zig version integration could be interesting. Not sure exactly what that looks like though?

[dweiller]

Yeah I think having some sort of nominated zig version integration could be interesting. Not sure exactly what that looks like though?

Mach provides a modified index.json at https://machengine.org/zig/index.json that is a superset (though updated less often) of the Zig project's index.json, it is described here.

I think it will be relatively simple to support Mach's nominated versions by simply checking both the upstream and Mach index.json file when looking for a compiler version. The only small complication I foresee is if we want to deduplicate zig versions with the same name as the Mach index.json contains entries both named for the nominated version and the Mach version, with the latter being an alias for a nominated version, as well as a mach-latest which is an alias for the latest nominated version.