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The changes are honestly quite straightforward, mostly just updating where things are imported from or how they're specified. No real logic changes, except removing an unnecessary line under the list of imports.
- Switch to supported Github Action for installing Zig - Test with multiple supported zig versions - Ensure the setup-zig cache key for installing zig includes the zig version, to avoid conflicts - Compile the demo example, to make sure that also works as expected, so that our users can have confidence in it
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This move has some pros and cons. The most obvious con is that the use of 'zig build-exe' has become extraordinarily more complicated, to the point where I wasn't able to work it out in a sensible amount of time. The sheer lack of documentation about this command with regards to linking dependencies is honestly quite shocking. I think the entire community just assumes that you're already a gcc flag wizard, and will magically understand how everything is supposed to translate over. There are more upsides than downsides though. For starters, we can avoid linking libc. The termsize package uses only native zig code, which is nice. It also has Windows support! As I use Windows + WSL + Powershell more and more, this is only going to become more and more important for me. The hr project has always been a simple and straightforward way for me to play around with new programming languages, and one of the most important things in any modern programming environment is dependency management. This exercise has helped me learn and understand more about how Zig's dependency management system worked, which has been fascinating (spoiler alert, I really do think it could be more ergonomic - why do I need to manually specify dependencies in the build system when they're in my build.zig.zon file and I'm requiring them from my code??). I'm also going to use this as an excuse to learn more about publishing multi-arch releases to Github, and distributing a package through winget for ease of installation. I can't do any of that sensibly until the software actually runs on Windows though, which this update is all about. The future is bright. It's worth noting quickly that this currently relies on a (hopefully temporary) fork of termsize that supports Zig 0.15.1. There's a PR open here to get my improvements merged upstream: softprops/zig-termsize#8
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std.io.getStdOut()to usestd.fs.File.stdout()insteadsetup-zigcache key for installing zig includes the zig version, to avoid conflicts