Repeated production builds recompiled build-info, GTK and their dependents
because build scripts watched missing optional files and generated outputs.
Watch packed-refs only when present and the prebuilt GTK bundle only when
consumed. Loose refs remain watched so packing them refreshes Git inputs.
Invoke glib-compile-resources directly instead of using a helper that also
watches generated XML and UI files. The existing resources directory watch
covers their source inputs. Remove the unused helper dependency and document
the build input rules.
Test Plan:
- Run cargo build --profile production three times; repeats compile nothing.
- Run cargo clippy, cargo clippy --benches and cargo clippy --tests.
- Run cargo +nightly fmt and repeat all three Clippy checks.
Documentation: docs/rewrite/ARCHITECTURE.md
Zig treats paths, arguments and environment values as byte slices; the
port converted them lossily in many places. Now (final-Z1.md):
- argv, env (incl. present non-UTF-8 values), HOME, PATH lookup,
passwd, resources dir, TMPDIR, cgroup, config path canonicalization,
+validate-config, +list-themes and Zig-string escapes (\xFF) keep raw
bytes. String-based config values carry bytes via ghostty_os::osbytes,
a bijective escape (noncharacter U+FDD0 + byte) that leaves all valid
UTF-8 - including Nerd Font private-use icons - unchanged.
- os/file rlimit fallbacks exist on all targets.
- i18n locale canonicalization is an exact port of libintl's tables
(e.g. pa-Guru -> pa_IN).
- New ghostty-build-info crate is the single source of version, channel,
commit and build mode for all consumers.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-os -p ghostty-config -p ghostty-cli
(incl. randomized osbytes round-trip property tests)
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