CI/lint hardening since v1.6.14: clippy on stable with the MSRV single-sourced
from Cargo.toml, cargo-deny dependency-audit gate with first-party git sources
allowed (#15), and audience-based comment-guard (#17). No library code changes.
Every push to qa now tags v<version>-rc<N>, N incrementing, before the gates
run. That answers "which build is on qa, and is it the one I tested?" without
anyone having to remember it.
The tag lands whether the run goes green or red, deliberately. A red candidate
needs a name more than a green one does: "rc3 failed release-tests on windows"
is a sentence you can act on, "qa is red" is not. Red on qa is the gate doing
its job — the branch saying this is not production worth yet.
release.yml now excludes v*-rc*. Its trigger was v*, which matches the
candidate tags, so without this every push to qa would have built and PUBLISHED
a GitHub release — including for the candidates that failed.
The Windows UI needs current winsafe, whose real minimum is 1.89 (its manifest
under-declares 1.87 while it uses NonNull::from_ref). Rather than stop at the
minimum, this goes to current stable and fixes what that costs.
The counter-intuitive result: 1.97 is CHEAPER than 1.89. libfreemkv had 54
clippy errors at 1.89 and 6 at 1.97, because clippy tightened the noisy
collapsible_if lint in between. Stopping at the minimum would have been the most
expensive choice available.
Roughly 47 lints across the eight repos, the large majority auto-fixed:
libfreemkv 6, freemkv-engine 14, bdemu 8, freemkv-keysources 7, autorip 6,
freemkv-unlock 3, freemkv-i18n 3. The hand-fixed ones are a descending sort to
sort_by_key(Reverse), four manual checked-division sites, a loop counter replaced
by enumerate, and a loop whose first let-else became a while-let.
Worth recording for whoever bumps next: clippy is MSRV-AWARE. Those 54 lints only
appear once the crate DECLARES 1.89 or later, because let-chains become
available. A bare `cargo +1.89 clippy` against a manifest still pinned at 1.87
reports clean and is meaningless — gate with the real precommit script, which is
also the only thing that covers build scripts.
The pin still sits below the Mac default, so it keeps doing its job: catching
lint drift locally before CI sees it.
The Windows UI needs winsafe, whose current release requires rustc 1.87. The
alternative was pinning winsafe back to an older release, which would bake a
stale API surface into a brand-new UI permanently to dodge one minor version.
The pin's purpose is to sit BELOW the Mac default so clippy drift is caught
locally before CI, not to stay on 1.86 specifically, so 1.87 preserves the
discipline exactly.
Verified before moving anything, not after: `cargo +1.87 clippy -- -D warnings`
and `cargo +1.87 fmt --check` are clean across all eight repos, and the full
precommit gate (fmt + clippy + tests) passes on libfreemkv, autorip, bdemu,
freemkv-engine and freemkv-keysources. Zero new lints, zero formatting drift.
Matthew Jackson