Releases and installers

Rindle uses direct distribution, not npm or crates.io. dist-workspace.toml configures cargo-dist; .github/workflows/release.yml is generated from that configuration.

Platforms

The release configuration targets Apple Silicon and Intel macOS, ARM64 and x64 Linux, and x64 Windows. Releases will contain native archives and checksum files, plus shell and PowerShell installers.

Installing a release

Once the first tagged release is published, users will be able to install with:

curl -fsSL https://rindle.ashray.xyz/install.sh | sh

For Windows, the PowerShell installer is available at https://rindle.ashray.xyz/install.ps1.

There is no published release yet. The site hosts installer entry points now, but they cannot download a Rindle binary until the first release exists.

The installed CLI includes rindle upgrade and rindle upgrade --check. Optional daily updates use launchd on macOS, systemd user timers on Linux, and Task Scheduler on Windows. Background updates are off by default.

Publishing

The package version in Cargo.toml must match the tag. Before the first release, implement and test the application behavior, update the changelog, and then run:

just check
just docs-check
dist plan
just release-tag 0.1.0

The tag triggers the GitHub Actions release workflow. Follow .agents/skills/release/SKILL.md for the complete procedure. Change dist-workspace.toml and run dist generate when modifying release configuration; never edit the generated workflow by hand.