release using cargo-dist

[kranurag7]

Fixes: #263

As of now, musl and windows based build are disabled because they were breaking, I can take a look at fixing those later.

I created a release on my fork here: https://github.com/kranurag7/mistral.rs/releases/tag/v0.1.24

[github-actions]

Code Metrics Report

  ===============================================================================
 Language            Files        Lines         Code     Comments       Blanks
===============================================================================
 Dockerfile              1           34           25            0            9
 Happy                   1          442          369            0           73
 JSON                    9           21           21            0            0
 Python                 32         1256         1075           37          144
 TOML                   16          444          403            1           40
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Jupyter Notebooks       1            0            0            0            0
 |- Markdown             1           60           30           22            8
 |- Python               1           96           87            1            8
 (Total)                            156          117           23           16
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Markdown               18         1321            0          982          339
 |- BASH                 5          100           97            0            3
 |- Python               6          122          110            0           12
 |- Rust                 3          151          135            6           10
 (Total)                           1694          342          988          364
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Rust                  119        36409        32892          648         2869
 |- Markdown            59          663           13          613           37
 (Total)                          37072        32905         1261         2906
===============================================================================
 Total                 198        39927        34785         1668         3474
===============================================================================
  

[EricLBuehler]

Hi @kranurag7! Thanks for adding this. I noticed you added a few new CI steps: build-global-artifacts, host, announce. I was wondering if you could give a quick overview of what you added and generally how it works? In particular, we already use GH releases to create tags and track releases, so I'm not sure if that would be affected by the new announce step?

As of now, musl and windows based build are disabled because they were breaking, I can take a look at fixing those later.

Sounds good.

[kranurag7]

The build jobs builds the artifacts and then we create a release in GitHub. This means you'll get your release assets uploaded and a table which will ease the downloading of tarballs for users.

See https://github.com/kranurag7/mistral.rs/releases/tag/v0.1.24

This is what is done in the last announce step. It as the last stage which gets executed after the build is finished.

From what I see, you push a tag to build the image via two workflow.

• build_cpu.yaml and build_cuda_all.yaml

This workflow extends that, now when you push the tag, you'll have your binaries present as well on the releases.

[EricLBuehler]

Thank you!

[ashleygwilliams]

so glad to see this! sorry i dropped the ball on actually making the PR.

in case it's not clear, the tool cargo-dist fully generates the workflow. to update the workflow, you'll use the cargo-dist tool and edit config in your Cargo.toml. to update- you can run cargo dist selfupdate which will fetch the new version of cargo-dist and also run cargo dist init which will ask you some questions and re-gen your workflows. we do not recommend you hand edit the workflow and cargo-dist will complain if you do (you can tell it to stop, but again, we don't recommend that). feel free to ask me if you have any questions or hop in our discord, https://discord.gg/qzzYcWPh

[ashleygwilliams]

for ease of installing, you may want to add some installers :) this will let people install the pre-built binaries instead of having to compile on their machine with cargo install