This update brings several parameterization and usage flexibility
improvements on Zopfli, allowing users to choose to limit execution time
by a number of iterations without improvement, and exposing a more
advanced `ZlibEncoder` struct to tune compression block sizes and
DEFLATE block types. Some minor microoptimizations were also made.
For now, I don't expect this PR to substantially affect how OxiPNG
compresses images using its Zopfli mode, but the additional parameter
customization may come in handy for future work improving how Zopfli is
used in OxiPNG.
As commented in issues https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng/issues/444
and https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng/issues/518, there is some user
interest for distributing binaries for each unstable commit, and target
ARM64 platforms. Personally, I think both suggestions are useful for the
project, as uploading binary artifacts for each commit might help
interested users to catch regressions and give feedback earlier, and
powerful ARM64 platforms are becoming increasingly popular due to some
cloud services (e.g., Amazon EC2, Azure VMs, Oracle Cloud) offering
cheaper plans for this hardware, in addition to the well-known push for
ARM by Apple with their custom M1 chips.
These changes make the CI target ARM64 as a first-class citizen. Because
the public GitHub actions runners can only be hosted on x64 for now, I
resorted to cross-compilation, [Debian's
multiarch](https://elinux.org/images/d/d8/Multiarch_and_Why_You_Should_Care-_Running%2C_Installing_and_Crossbuilding_With_Multiple_Architectures.pdf),
and QEMU to build, get ARM64 C library dependencies, and run tests,
respectively.
When the CI workflow finishes, a release CLI binary artifact is now
uploaded, which can be downloaded from the workflow run page on the
GitHub web interface.
In addition, these changes also introduce some cleanup and miscellaneous
improvements and changes to the CI workflow:
- Tests are run using [`nextest`](https://nexte.st/) instead of `cargo
test`, which substantially speeds up their execution. (On my development
workstation, `cargo test --release` takes around 10.67 s, while `cargo
nextest run --release` takes around 6.02 s.)
- The dependencies on unmaintained `actions-rs` actions were dropped in
favor of running Cargo commands directly, or using
`giraffate/clippy-action` for pretty inline annotations for Clippy. This
gets rid of the deprecation warnings for each workflow run.
- Most CI steps are run with a nightly Rust toolchain now, which allows
to take advantage of the latest Clippy lints and codegen improvements.
In my experience, when not relying on specific nightly features or
compiler internals, Rust does a pretty good job at making it possible to
rely on a rolling-release compiler for CI, as breakage is extremely rare
and thus offset by the improved features.
- The MSRV check was moved to a separate job with less steps, so that it
takes less of a toll on total workflow run minutes.
## Pending tasks
- [x] Generate universal macOS binaries with `lipo` (i.e., containing
both `aarch64` and `x64` code)
- [x] Tirelessly fix the stupid errors that tend to happen when
deploying a new CI workflow for the first time
- [x] Think what to do with the `deploy.yml` workflow. Should it fetch
artifacts from the CI job instead of building them again?
- [x] Maybe bring back 32-bit Windows binaries. Are they actually useful
for somebody, or just a way to remember the good old days?
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Co-authored-by: Josh Holmer <jholmer.in@gmail.com>
* add `workflow_dispatch` for manual running
* add `fail-fast` false in matrix
* specify `persist-credentials: false` for actions/checkout
* update actions to the latest versions
* move cache before installing the toolchain
* cache more stuff
* limit deploy to shssoichiro/oxipng repository
* reindent
* Make dependency on `image` optional
After PR https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng/pull/481 was merged, the
`image` dependency became unused when building with debug assertions
disabled, as it is only used to implement output sanity checks when such
assertions are enabled.
The `image` crate transitively pulls a significant amount of
dependencies, so it's useful for OxiPNG users to get rid of them when
not needed.
[Cargo does not allow specifying dependencies that are only pulled when
debug assertions are
enabled](https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7634), so the next
best way to give users some flexibility is to gate those debug
assertions behind a feature flag.
These changes add a `sanity-checks` feature flag that controls whether
the `image` crate and the related sanity checks are compiled in. This
feature is enabled by default to keep debug builds useful to catch
problems during development.
* Fix Clippy lints
* Run tests with new sanity-checks feature enabled
* Update and optimize dependencies
These changes update the dependencies to their latest versions, fixing
some known issues that prevented doing so in the first place.
In addition, the direct dependency on byteorder was dropped in favor
of stdlib functions that have been stabilized for some time in Rust, and
the transitive dependency on chrono, pulled by stderrlog, was also
dropped, which had been affected by security issues and improperly
maintained in the past:
- https://github.com/cardoe/stderrlog-rs/issues/31
- https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ts84n4/chrono_or_time_03/
* Run rustfmt
* Bump MSRV to 1.56.1
Updating to this patch version should not be cumbersome for end-users,
and it is required by a transitive dependency.
* Bump MSRV to 1.57.0
os_str_bytes requires it.
* Build more release binaries
Include a static Linux binary with musl and a macOS build. Also add
readme, license and changelog to the release archives.
Fixes GH-134
* Merge windows and linux builds
* Test musl and darwin targets
* Fix matrix exclude key
