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Detect and use latest binary releases on Windows & macOS
Description
We currently hardcode paths to Windows binary release archives and have to update the paths manually when new distros/distro patches are released: https://github.com/ros-tooling/setup-ros/blob/c4e8165ee5518c04dc4588bff7c1028ccf563e6f/src/setup-ros-windows.ts#L9-L17
setup-ros could try to automatically detect and use the latest binary release for a given distro.
Related Issues
This feature request includes macOS assuming that this related feature is implemented: #107
Completion Criteria
- latest binary releases are automatically fetched and used
Implementation Notes / Suggestions
See https://github.com/ros-tooling/setup-ros/pull/450#issuecomment-928146113
We could fetch releases using the GitHub API and check the tags. The tag format is always
release-$DISTRO-YYYYMMDD. Then we check the assets and pick the one for a given platform. This part might be a bit trickier, but it should work.
Testing Notes / Suggestions
Would you consider also adding support for "rolling" by grabbing the latest nightly artifacts from ci.ros2.org? Namely:
- https://ci.ros2.org/view/packaging/job/packaging_windows/
- https://ci.ros2.org/view/packaging/job/packaging_osx/
They are technically ahead of Rolling, since they are the latest from-source builds.
Oh yeah that's a good idea!
They are technically ahead of Rolling, since they are the latest from-source builds.
if it's the only way to get Rolling binaries for those platforms, it's fine. We can just document it.
Also, we should note that those artifacts I linked are only for the "core" packages listed in this repos file.