Using nightly on CI | The Gleam Programming Language | Page 1

proper nova Nov 25, 2024, 12:26 PM

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There are lots of cool things on the main branch of Gleam, which haven't been released yet, and so I like to use nightly to develop my Gleam projects. However, when I use a feature that hasn't been released yet in my code, CI breaks because it has no idea how to process those features. Is there a way I can use Gleam nightly on CI so that I get the nice upcoming features while still automatically running tests etc?

brave pasture Nov 25, 2024, 12:53 PM

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This would be great to have, I've used RC builds in CI on several occasions. Are official nightly builds available anywhere? The release.yaml workflow is only run on version tags.

The GitHub Action seems to reference nightly, have you tried specifying it?

https://github.com/erlef/setup-beam/blob/ff4f054c9196e7939f3d1316771d9236c46ef126/src/setup-beam.js#L856

proper nova Nov 25, 2024, 12:56 PM

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No I haven't, I'll give it a look, thanks!

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Hmm no that doesn't seem to have worked

brave pasture Nov 25, 2024, 1:10 PM

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The latest nightly build output is here: https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/actions/runs/11991877900

proper nova Nov 25, 2024, 1:13 PM

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Ah yes! Do you know how I could use it in my workflow file?

brave pasture Nov 25, 2024, 1:15 PM

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The build was uploaded here: https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/releases/download/nightly/gleam-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

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What happens when you specify the gleam-version as nightly?

proper nova Nov 25, 2024, 1:16 PM

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This error:

brave pasture Nov 25, 2024, 1:27 PM

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Set version-type: strict

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This works:

      - name: Setup Gleam
        uses: erlef/setup-beam@v1
        with:
          otp-version: "27.1.2"
          gleam-version: nightly
          rebar3-version: "3.24.0"
          version-type: strict

proper nova Nov 25, 2024, 1:29 PM

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Ok thanks

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I know it said it in the error message but that didn't seem like it was the correct option

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I would have imagined version-type: strict would disallow more cases, not allow more cases

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That works! Thanks so much

#Using nightly on CI