Having multiple release artifacts per platform is a maintenance burden.
Furthermore, it is a maintenance burden that doesn't directly improve
the Nvim editor itself. The releases are meant to be a quick way for
users to try out and use neovim on their platform and was never intended
to be a buffet of releases for every conceivable setup.
Users are encouraged to the following replacements:
- Github action `action-setup-vim` to have neovim installed on their
PATH for their CI jobs. See https://github.com/rhysd/action-setup-vim.
- Use the appimage, either as is or by extracting it
- To use as is, run `chmod u+x nvim.appimage && ./nvim.appimage`
- If your system does not have FUSE you can extract the appimage with
`./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract && ./squashfs-root/usr/bin/nvim`
- Build it manually. See https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Building-Neovim.
Work on https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/22684
The labeler adds "lua" label to too many files. When there is already
a "treesitter" or "lsp" label, a "lua" label isn't useful. Instead it's
better to add the label manually to PRs for general Lua support.
Installing the ruby provider takes anything between 1 and 1.5 minutes on
Windows, which is a big drain on our CI. Remove it until we find a more
sustainable solution.
The lua client is no longer needed after
d6279f9392. One of its dependencies,
mpack, is still needed however. Remove lua-nvim and replace it with
lua-mpack.
The other packages are most likely not needed as we no longer run tests
for external dependencies.
If one uses .deps when DEPS_BUILD_DIR is defined in another location it
leads to very surprising behaviors, as it looks for libraries in other
places other than .deps.
Currently files to install in runtime/ is detected by recursive glob
pattern which has two problems:
- cmake needs to do a of work at config time and
build/runtime/cmake_install.cmake becomes HUGE (2.5MB, biggest config file)
- we need to explicitly specify each file suffix used in the entire
runtime, which is duplication of information.
These globs specify every single file in a subdirectory.
Thus, we can just install every runtime/ subdirectory as a single
install command. Furthermore, at the top-level, only .vim and .lua files
need to be installed.
Further possible refactor: we could move files which does not belong
in $PREFIX/runtime out of $REPO/runtime. Then runtime could be installed
with a single install_helper(DIRECTORY ...) command.
Having separate directory location causes failures to be inconsistent
and ultimately confusing. A common problem is a file with a particular
name is searched for the entire repository, which gives different
results if the dependency directory is inside the neovim directory or
outside of it.
Having to specify CI_BUILD for every CI job requires boilerplate. More
importantly, it's easy to forget to enable CI_BUILD, as seen by
8a20f9f98a. It's simpler to remember to
turn CI_BUILD off when a job errors instead of remembering that every
new job should have CI_BUILD on.
Multi-config generators can be tricky so testing them would be good.
Also test GCC release and MinSizeRel build types as they're prone to
unusual warnings. Remove release testing from test.yml as this is a
sufficient replacement.
Having a workflow that only builds neovim without running all of the
tests is a cheap way to test the build still works without burning too
much CI time.
libtool, autoconf, automake and perl are no longer dependencies of
neovim and doesn't need to be installed in CI anymore. The dependencies
and the commit that removed them as dependencies are the following:
libtool: b05100a9ea
perl: 20a932cb72
autoconf+automake: e23c5fda0a
ci: add GCC release testing
We currently have no release testing, so it's good to check for any
unwanted behavior on release builds as well. Prefer GCC over clang, as
GCC release builds seem to create more warnings on release compared to
debug.
Detect if on CI by checking that the CI environment variable is set to "true".
This is a common pattern among CI providers, including github actions and
cirrus.
Having CI scripts that is separate from the build system causes
tremendous amounts of problems, headaches and bugs. Testing the validity
of the scripts locally become near impossible as time goes on as they're
only vetted if it works on whatever CI provider we happened to have at
the time, with their own quirks and behavior.
The extra indirection between "cmake <-> general CI scripts <-> GHA" is
also a frequent source of problems, as the orchestration needs to be
done with environment variables, cmake flags and github actions matrix
strategy. This combination has turned out to be exceptionally fragile.
Examples:
15394b685513aa23b62ahttps://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/22072#discussion_r1094390713
A lot of the code was inlined to .github/workflows/ci.yml without
further modifications. While this in itself doesn't integrate with our
build system any more than the current situation, it does
1. remove a level of indirection, and more importantly
2. allow us to slowly start integrating the CI into our build system now
that all the relevant code is in one place.
* ci: show all logs at the end of a run
The current CI won't show the logs on error due to early exit. This will
at least show the logs, although for all tests at once.
More specifically, move the job testing the oldest supported cmake into
its own job. This opens the way for other jobs to use powerful and
advanced cmake features such as choosing which files to use with the -S
flag.
Removed testing from this job as this probably won't reveal anything
that other jobs already doesn't already show, since the only difference
is the cmake version.
Using the base branch as cache means that pull requests won't be able to
use the cache from the master branch, since the master branch cache
doesn't have a base_ref as it's generated from a push. Removing base_ref
makes the cache key from master and PR branch the same, provided the any
build files don't change.
