[Feature PR] Improve ci configuration for `.github/workflows/release.yml`

[Mooling0602]

I've found shortcomings in the current release.yml file: in the "Install Rust non-interactively if not already installed" section, if rustc and cargo tools are already installed, the installation step is skipped, ultimately causing the build of the product to fail when the pre-installed tool version is lower than the minimum required by the project.

It caused some errors in my project's Actions tasks:

• https://github.com/Mooling0602/Daemon_Console_Rust/actions/runs/19165853500
• https://github.com/Mooling0602/Daemon_Console_Rust/actions/runs/18746468997

I wrote a better release.yml template file, it reads rust-version option in Cargo.toml, and if current rust (cargo/rustc) version lower than it, then reinstall rust tools to latest version.

I want to make a pull request to merge the release.yml file I modified with ChatGPT. I'll do it later and refer to this issue there.

I want to make a contribution to this great project and hope it gets better!

[Gankra]

I believe your problem would be better solved by adding a rust-toolchain.toml to your project, which is the community-standard way to get CI to use the toolchain you want: https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html#the-toolchain-file

[Mooling0602]

I believe your problem would be better solved by adding a rust-toolchain.toml to your project, which is the community-standard way to get CI to use the toolchain you want: https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html#the-toolchain-file

Yes, thanks for your reply. I'm thinking if force install latest rust tools works better than "Install Rust non-interactively if not already installed", I think it couldn't affect rust-toolchain.toml file's work.

[wade-cheng]

I'm getting the compilation error error[E0658]: let expressions in this position are unstable in release CI for only aarch64-pc-windows-msvc. The error mentions https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53667, which leads me to believe dist is supplying an outdated rust somehow?

I have

       "artifacts": [
        "source.tar.gz",
        "source.tar.gz.sha256",
        "compile-typst-site-installer.sh",
        "compile-typst-site-installer.ps1",
        "sha256.sum",
        "compile-typst-site-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz",
        "compile-typst-site-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz.sha256",
        "compile-typst-site-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip",
        "compile-typst-site-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip.sha256",
        "compile-typst-site-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz",
        "compile-typst-site-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz.sha256",
        "compile-typst-site-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz",
        "compile-typst-site-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz.sha256",
        "compile-typst-site-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip",
        "compile-typst-site-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip.sha256",
        "compile-typst-site-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz",
        "compile-typst-site-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz.sha256",
        "compile-typst-site-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz",
        "compile-typst-site-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz.sha256"
      ],

Some research led me to this issue. And the toml worked. For others:

# rust-toolchain.toml
[toolchain]
channel = "stable"

is all I needed.

https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html#the-toolchain-file and https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html#channel were helpful.