Binary releases?

[eitsupi]

Binary releases?

[dgkf]

No release builds yet - but I did get a wasm version set up so you can now try it out in your browser at https://dgkf.github.io/R/

[dgkf]

Sure- that sounds reasonable to me. Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve been meaning to get some CI set up - especially now that we are starting to hone in on a better testing strategy. If you can link to a repo that does something similar, that would help move it along faster.

[eitsupi]

@dgkf Thanks! I left a comment on #63.

[dgkf]

Thanks for all your help @eitsupi! We now have binaries in PR artifacts and on release 🎉

[dgkf]

@eitsupi

I have done such CI setup on other repositories and may be able to help.

Would you be able to link me to a repo where you set this up and also provide some instructions on how you would plan to use them? Is it simply to have a file you can download and run or are there other parts of a workflow that this would help support?

[eitsupi]

Sorry I haven't been able to do this.

This is what I actually set:
https://github.com/PRQL/prql/blob/27b70c5acab8837898221ad11ace320ab0743dba/.github/actions/build-prqlc/action.yaml
Builds and uploads are done for each PR, so anyone can immediately see the changes made in the PR.
https://github.com/PRQL/prql/blob/27b70c5acab8837898221ad11ace320ab0743dba/.github/workflows/tests.yaml#L556-L596

As a side note, cross-compilation for Linux is easier with cross.
The release workflow of this repository may be helpful.
https://github.com/datafuselabs/bendsql/blob/adb31ed7e4980a244a0f353ac2ab8fe2c1d3d126/.github/workflows/release.yml

[dgkf]

@eitsupi Thanks for those resources! I ended up using the helix project as a basis and adapted their setup (just because it's a bit simpler than the setup for prql).

It also has previews in PRs and releases on tags, which I think is a good fit.

For now just publishing x86 linux binaries, but will enable a few others before merge. You can check out the first preview binaries here:

https://github.com/dgkf/R/actions/runs/6477863673?pr=63

Is there anything more that you'd be looking for in such a feature?

[eitsupi]

Awesome, thanks for working on this!