Added Dependabot and Github Workflows to format, lint, build and test the crate #128
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| - uses: actions/checkout@v3 | ||
| - uses: ./.github/actions/install_deps | ||
| - name: Set up Rust | ||
| uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@master |
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Don't have much experience with github workflows. How "settled" is dtolnay/rust-toolchain i only read about actions-rs/toolchain being abandoned and the community is trying to make/find a replacement. Is that it? In any case, even if it changes to a different repository later on we could change that.
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I am not 100% sure about that either. Here is the relevant issue: actions-rs/toolchain#216. A number of projects switched to it and I also noticed that BurntSushi switched to it for the rust-lang/regex repo (PR). I believe it is a popular Workflow
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I think we can just go ahead – we can change it later if its necessary, we don't maneuver our self into a corner either way. I just wanted to know your opinion about it.
In order to reduce the effort it takes to maintain this library, I added Dependabot and Github Workflows. Dependabot will automatically open a PR if a dependency or one of the used Github Actions is out of date. The Github Workflows will ensure that the code
This is done for all supported platforms (linux, macos, windows) and for three Rust versions. The Rust versions are:
The workflows can be manually started and they automatically run if a PR was raised