chore: replace cargo-dist with cross + gh CLI release workflow

- Delete dist-workspace.toml (cargo-dist config)
- Rename [profile.dist] → [profile.release] in Cargo.toml (same LTO/strip settings)
- Replace 299-line cargo-dist-generated release.yml with clean 109-line custom workflow:
  - Triggers on v*.*.* tags
  - Validates tag matches Cargo.toml version
  - Builds 6 targets via cross (aarch64/x86_64 macOS, Linux gnu/musl, Windows MSVC)
  - Creates draft GitHub release via gh release create --generate-notes
  - Uploads .tar.gz/.zip + SHA256 checksums via gh release upload

Matches SOTA pattern used by ripgrep, fd, bat, eza — no external release orchestration.

Author: ilyazub

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -1,298 +1,109 @@
-# This file was autogenerated by dist: https://axodotdev.github.io/cargo-dist
-#
-# Copyright 2022-2024, axodotdev
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT or Apache-2.0
-#
-# CI that:
-#
-# * checks for a Git Tag that looks like a release
-# * builds artifacts with dist (archives, installers, hashes)
-# * uploads those artifacts to temporary workflow zip
-# * on success, uploads the artifacts to a GitHub Release
-#
-# Note that the GitHub Release will be created with a generated
-# title/body based on your changelogs.
-
 name: Release
-permissions:
-  "contents": "write"
 
-# This task will run whenever you push a git tag that looks like a version
-# like "1.0.0", "v0.1.0-prerelease.1", "my-app/0.1.0", "releases/v1.0.0", etc.
-# Various formats will be parsed into a VERSION and an optional PACKAGE_NAME, where
-# PACKAGE_NAME must be the name of a Cargo package in your workspace, and VERSION
-# must be a Cargo-style SemVer Version (must have at least major.minor.patch).
-#
-# If PACKAGE_NAME is specified, then the announcement will be for that
-# package (erroring out if it doesn't have the given version or isn't dist-able).
-#
-# If PACKAGE_NAME isn't specified, then the announcement will be for all
-# (dist-able) packages in the workspace with that version (this mode is
-# intended for workspaces with only one dist-able package, or with all dist-able
-# packages versioned/released in lockstep).
-#
-# If you push multiple tags at once, separate instances of this workflow will
-# spin up, creating an independent announcement for each one. However, GitHub
-# will hard limit this to 3 tags per commit, as it will assume more tags is a
-# mistake.
-#
-# If there's a prerelease-style suffix to the version, then the release(s)
-# will be marked as a prerelease.
 on:
   push:
     tags:
-      - '**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
+      - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
 
 jobs:
-  # Run 'dist plan' (or host) to determine what tasks we need to do
-  plan:
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
-    outputs:
-      val: ${{ steps.plan.outputs.manifest }}
-      tag: ${{ github.ref_name }}
-      tag-flag: ${{ format('--tag={0}', github.ref_name) }}
-      publishing: 'true'
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+  create-release:
+    name: Create release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: true
-          submodules: recursive
-      - name: Verify tag is on main branch
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Verify tag matches Cargo.toml version
         run: |
-          git fetch origin main --depth=50
-          if ! git merge-base --is-ancestor "${{ github.sha }}" origin/main; then
-            echo "::error::Release tags must be pushed from the main branch. Aborting."
+          TAG="${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}"
+          CARGO_VERSION=$(grep '^version' Cargo.toml | head -1 | sed 's/.*"\(.*\)"/\1/')
+          if [ "$TAG" != "$CARGO_VERSION" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Tag $GITHUB_REF_NAME does not match Cargo.toml version $CARGO_VERSION"
             exit 1
           fi
-      - name: Install dist
-        # we specify bash to get pipefail; it guards against the `curl` command
-        # failing. otherwise `sh` won't catch that `curl` returned non-0
-        shell: bash
-        run: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist/releases/download/v0.31.0/cargo-dist-installer.sh | sh"
-      - name: Cache dist
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: cargo-dist-cache
-          path: ~/.cargo/bin/dist
-      - id: plan
+      - name: Create draft release
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
-          dist host --steps=create --tag=${{ github.ref_name }} --output-format=json > plan-dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-          cat plan-dist-manifest.json
-          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." plan-dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: artifacts-plan-dist-manifest
-          path: plan-dist-manifest.json
+          gh release create "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" \
+            --draft \
+            --title "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" \
+            --generate-notes
 
-  # Build and packages all the platform-specific things
-  build-local-artifacts:
-    name: build-local-artifacts (${{ join(matrix.targets, ', ') }})
-    # Let the initial task tell us to not run (currently very blunt)
-    needs:
-      - plan
-    if: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix.include != null && (needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' || fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.pr_run_mode == 'upload') }}
+  build-release:
+    name: Build (${{ matrix.target }})
+    needs: create-release
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
-      # Target platforms/runners are computed by dist in create-release.
-      # Each member of the matrix has the following arguments:
-      #
-      # - runner: the github runner
-      # - dist-args: cli flags to pass to dist
-      # - install-dist: expression to run to install dist on the runner
-      #
-      # Typically there will be:
-      # - 1 "global" task that builds universal installers
-      # - N "local" tasks that build each platform's binaries and platform-specific installers
-      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix }}
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
-    container: ${{ matrix.container && matrix.container.image || null }}
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - target: aarch64-apple-darwin
+            os: macos-latest
+          - target: x86_64-apple-darwin
+            os: macos-13
+          - target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            use_cross: true
+          - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+          - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+            use_cross: true
+          - target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+            os: windows-latest
     steps:
-      - name: enable windows longpaths
-        run: |
-          git config --global core.longpaths true
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
-      - name: Install Rust non-interactively if not already installed
-        if: ${{ matrix.container }}
-        run: |
-          if ! command -v cargo > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-            curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
-            echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
-          fi
-      - name: Install dist
-        run: ${{ matrix.install_dist.run }}
-      # Get the dist-manifest
-      - name: Fetch local artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          pattern: artifacts-*
-          path: target/distrib/
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          ${{ matrix.packages_install }}
-      - name: Build artifacts
-        run: |
-          # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
-          dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --print=linkage --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist_args }} > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-      - id: cargo-dist
-        name: Post-build
-        # We force bash here just because github makes it really hard to get values up
-        # to "real" actions without writing to env-vars, and writing to env-vars has
-        # inconsistent syntax between shell and powershell.
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
-          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          dist print-upload-files-from-manifest --manifest dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
-      - name: "Upload artifacts"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: artifacts-build-local-${{ join(matrix.targets, '_') }}
-          path: |
-            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
-            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
+      - name: Install Rust toolchain
+        run: rustup target add ${{ matrix.target }}
 
-  # Build and package all the platform-agnostic(ish) things
-  build-global-artifacts:
-    needs:
-      - plan
-      - build-local-artifacts
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/global-dist-manifest.json
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
-      - name: Install cached dist
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
+      - name: Install cross
+        if: matrix.use_cross
+        uses: taiki-e/install-action@v2
         with:
-          name: cargo-dist-cache
-          path: ~/.cargo/bin/
-      - run: chmod +x ~/.cargo/bin/dist
-      # Get all the local artifacts for the global tasks to use (for e.g. checksums)
-      - name: Fetch local artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          pattern: artifacts-*
-          path: target/distrib/
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - id: cargo-dist
+          tool: cross
+
+      - name: Build
         shell: bash
         run: |
-          dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --output-format=json "--artifacts=global" > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "dist ran successfully"
-
-          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
-          echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          if [ "${{ matrix.use_cross }}" = "true" ]; then
+            cross build --release --target ${{ matrix.target }}
+          else
+            cargo build --release --target ${{ matrix.target }}
+          fi
 
-          cp dist-manifest.json "$BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME"
-      - name: "Upload artifacts"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: artifacts-build-global
-          path: |
-            ${{ steps.cargo-dist.outputs.paths }}
-            ${{ env.BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME }}
-  # Determines if we should publish/announce
-  host:
-    needs:
-      - plan
-      - build-local-artifacts
-      - build-global-artifacts
-    # Only run if we're "publishing", and only if plan, local and global didn't fail (skipped is fine)
-    if: ${{ always() && needs.plan.result == 'success' && needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' && (needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-global-artifacts.result == 'success') && (needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'skipped' || needs.build-local-artifacts.result == 'success') }}
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
-    outputs:
-      val: ${{ steps.host.outputs.manifest }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
-      - name: Install cached dist
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          name: cargo-dist-cache
-          path: ~/.cargo/bin/
-      - run: chmod +x ~/.cargo/bin/dist
-      # Fetch artifacts from scratch-storage
-      - name: Fetch artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          pattern: artifacts-*
-          path: target/distrib/
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - id: host
+      - name: Package and checksum
+        id: package
         shell: bash
         run: |
-          dist host ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --steps=upload --steps=release --output-format=json > dist-manifest.json
-          echo "artifacts uploaded and released successfully"
-          cat dist-manifest.json
-          echo "manifest=$(jq -c "." dist-manifest.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-      - name: "Upload dist-manifest.json"
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          # Overwrite the previous copy
-          name: artifacts-dist-manifest
-          path: dist-manifest.json
-      # Create a GitHub Release while uploading all files to it
-      - name: "Download GitHub Artifacts"
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          pattern: artifacts-*
-          path: artifacts
-          merge-multiple: true
-      - name: Cleanup
-        run: |
-          # Remove the granular manifests
-          rm -f artifacts/*-dist-manifest.json
-      - name: Create GitHub Release
-        env:
-          PRERELEASE_FLAG: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_is_prerelease && '--prerelease' || '' }}"
-          ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_title }}"
-          ANNOUNCEMENT_BODY: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_github_body }}"
-          RELEASE_COMMIT: "${{ github.sha }}"
-        run: |
-          # Write and read notes from a file to avoid quoting breaking things
-          echo "$ANNOUNCEMENT_BODY" > $RUNNER_TEMP/notes.txt
+          BIN="serpapi"
+          TARGET="${{ matrix.target }}"
+          VERSION="${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}"
+          PKG="${BIN}-${VERSION}-${TARGET}"
+
+          mkdir "$PKG"
+          cp README.md LICENSE "$PKG/"
 
-          gh release create "${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}" --target "$RELEASE_COMMIT" $PRERELEASE_FLAG --title "$ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE" --notes-file "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.txt" artifacts/*
+          if [[ "$TARGET" == *"windows"* ]]; then
+            cp "target/${TARGET}/release/${BIN}.exe" "$PKG/"
+            7z a "${PKG}.zip" "$PKG"
+            ARCHIVE="${PKG}.zip"
+          else
+            cp "target/${TARGET}/release/${BIN}" "$PKG/"
+            tar czf "${PKG}.tar.gz" "$PKG"
+            ARCHIVE="${PKG}.tar.gz"
+          fi
 
+          sha256sum "$ARCHIVE" > "${ARCHIVE}.sha256"
+          echo "archive=$ARCHIVE" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "sha256=${ARCHIVE}.sha256" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
-  announce:
-    needs:
-      - plan
-      - host
-    # use "always() && ..." to allow us to wait for all publish jobs while
-    # still allowing individual publish jobs to skip themselves (for prereleases).
-    # "host" however must run to completion, no skipping allowed!
-    if: ${{ always() && needs.host.result == 'success' }}
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04"
-    env:
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-          submodules: recursive
+      - name: Upload to release
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          gh release upload "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" \
+            "${{ steps.package.outputs.archive }}" \
+            "${{ steps.package.outputs.sha256 }}"

Cargo.toml

@@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ targets = []
 assert_cmd = "2"
 predicates = "3"
 
-# The profile that 'dist' will build with
-[profile.dist]
-inherits = "release"
+[profile.release]
 lto = true
 codegen-units = 1
 strip = "symbols"