cast/CHANGELOG.md
dan-claude-bot ced5c497c0 feat: release flow — tagged releases with a prebuilt dist asset (#96)
The cast half of the flow designed in heavy-duty/box#83, aligned with
box#90 and rig#40, plus the piece unique to cast: a prebuilt release
asset, because cast is the one repo where the source tarball is not the
package.

- CHANGELOG.md (box's format) with this PR's entry under Unreleased;
  feature PRs land their entry as part of the PR.
- `cast --version` / `-V` answers with package.json's version, read
  relative to the compiled module so a source checkout and an installed
  prebuilt tree agree.
- release.yml, on EVERY tag push (no shape filter — a mismatched tag
  must fail the assert loudly, not be pattern-skipped): asserts tag ==
  package.json version FIRST, extracts that version's changelog section
  (.github/scripts/release-notes.sh, shared with the tests; missing or
  empty refuses), builds once (npm ci && npm run build && npm prune
  --omit=dev), stages bin/ dist/ node_modules/ package.json as
  cast-X.Y.Z/ and attaches cast-X.Y.Z.tgz to `gh release create
  --verify-tag`. No tests here — ci.yml gated the merge commit, and the
  suite needs age.
- install.sh grows the three channels: default = the latest release's
  asset (tag resolved off the releases/latest redirect Location — no
  API, no token; failure dies loudly naming CAST_REF=main, never a
  silent fallback), CAST_REF=<tag> = pinned (asset first, source
  fallback), CAST_REF=main = dev build-from-source. npm is required
  only on the source path, and a prebuilt tree is sanity-checked
  (dist/, node_modules/) before $DEST is replaced.
- test/release.test.ts drives it all offline: --version, the extraction
  against fixtures (0.7.0 never matches 0.7.0-rc1) and the real
  changelog, and REAL install.sh runs through all three channels with a
  stub curl and a poisoned npm — including the loud no-releases refusal
  with no $DEST side effects.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-18 22:27:55 +00:00

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Changelog

History before 0.1.0 lives in git — cast has said 0.1.0 in package.json since its first commit, but grew its release surface (this file, cast --version, tagged releases with a prebuilt asset) on the way to actually cutting it, and this file starts there.

Unreleased

Added

  • Tagged releases with a prebuilt dist asset, and an installer that installs them (#96) — the cast half of the flow designed in heavy-duty/box#83, plus the piece unique to cast: a prebuilt asset, because cast is the one repo where the source tarball is not the package. A release is a PR, then a tag: the release: X.Y.Z PR bumps package.json (and package-lock.json) and stamps this file's Unreleased section with version + date; the merge commit is tagged bare X.Y.Z (box's tag scheme — no v prefix). release.yml turns the tag into the GitHub release — after asserting tag == package.json version (a mismatch fails loudly and creates nothing) — with that version's section of this file as the body, extracted by the same .github/scripts/release-notes.sh the test harness drives, and with the runnable tree attached as cast-X.Y.Z.tgz: bin/, compiled dist/, production node_modules/, package.json, built once in CI (npm ci && npm run build && npm prune --omit=dev). install.sh now defaults to the latest release: the tag is resolved by following the releases/latest redirect and reading the Location header — no API, no token — and the download is that release's asset, so no npm ci, no tsc, no devDependencies ever run on the operator's machine. CAST_REF picks the other two channels: a tag pins a release (its asset first, source as the fallback for a ref that has none — refs/tags outranks a same-named branch), a branch (CAST_REF=main) tracks the development tree and is the one channel that still builds from source, the only place npm is required. Until 0.1.0 is cut the default channel has nothing to resolve and dies saying exactly that, naming CAST_REF=main as the way to install today — it never falls back to main silently, because "I installed the latest release" must not quietly mean "I installed whatever main was that second". The channel only decides which tree arrives and whether it is built here — whatever it fetched lands in the versioned layout (versions/<package.json version>, current flipped atomically) like any other install.