Direct behavioral equivalence: fetches live installer from webinstall.dev
with same UA, compares WEBI_* variables against local serveInstaller().
Tests alias resolution (golang→go, ripgrep→rg). Marks jq as known
(.git regression in Go cache).
Three test layers against live webinstall.dev APIs:
1. Unfiltered release API — OS/ext vocabulary, version format
2. Filtered release API — correct package for specific OS/arch
3. Installer script rendering — WEBI_* vars, download URLs
47 pass, 2 known format-preference diffs (node .pkg/.7z vs .tar.gz/.zip),
5 known Go-cache improvements (excluding .deb/.pem non-installable formats).
none = static (no runtime dep, works everywhere)
musl = requires musl runtime (e.g. node-musl)
gnu = requires glibc (crashes on Alpine)
libc = host UA value meaning "I have glibc"
The webinstall.dev server passes formats=['tar','exe','zip','xz','dmg']
by default — not empty. Fixed Windows UA to use 'Windows' (not
'Windows_NT'). Identified .git source URLs in Go cache as a regression
vs production (not just a priority issue). Updated PROD_NOTES.md with
webinstall.dev serve-releases.js libc bug finding.
Exercises the helper() function that `curl webi.sh/bat` actually hits.
9 passing, 6 known issues documented:
- WATERFALL libc->gnu gap (build-classifier submodule)
- ANYOS/ANYARCH .git source URLs matched before platform binaries
Compares local cache-only output against golden data fetched from
the live API. Tests OS/arch/ext vocabulary, version format, and
filtered query results for bat, go, node, rg, jq, caddy.
These files are no longer loaded at runtime. All release data now comes
from _cache/YYYY-MM/{pkg}.json files generated by the Go webicached daemon.
Deleted:
- 94 {pkg}/releases.js files (per-package upstream fetchers)
- 8 _common/*.js files (github.js, gitea.js, git-tag.js, fetcher.js, etc.)
Updated:
- _webi/classify-one.js: reads from cache instead of require(releases.js)
- Fixed hardcoded triplet key to use dynamic lookup
The legacy release API endpoint now reads from _cache/YYYY-MM/{pkg}.json
instead of require()ing {pkg}/releases.js and fetching upstream.
Cache data is re-normalized through normalize.js (with pre-classified
fields cleared first) to preserve the legacy API format where darwin
is reported as 'macos', versions lack 'v' prefix, etc.
Removed: Releases.get(), stale/expired age timers, background renewal,
promise chaining, sleep/timeout workarounds.
Project type detection no longer require()s {pkg}/releases.js to
determine if a package is valid. Instead it checks for a cache file
at _cache/YYYY-MM/{pkg}.json. This means:
- Packages with Go-generated cache but no releases.js (vim plugins,
pg-essentials, etc.) are now correctly detected as 'valid'
- The 'not_found' type (broken npm deps) is removed — no longer relevant
- releases.js files are no longer loaded at runtime for type detection
The Go webicached daemon now handles all upstream API fetching and cache
generation. The Node server reads only from _cache/YYYY-MM/{pkg}.json
files and never fetches from upstream APIs itself.
Removed:
- getLatestBuilds() and getLatestBuildsInner() — upstream fetch functions
- freshenRandomPackage() — background refresh timer
- Stale cache re-fetch in getPackages() process.nextTick block
- _staleAge config (no longer relevant)
When a package has no cache file, getPackages() returns empty metadata
instead of falling through to fetch.
Detailed instructions for the next step: making the Node.js server
read only from Go-generated _cache/ files, removing all upstream
API fetching from the Node.js code path.
Adds releases.js, install.sh, install.ps1, and README.md for monorel,
a Go monorepo release tool from therootcompany/golib. Filters monorepo
releases by tools/monorel/ prefix and auto-installs prerequisites
(git, gh, goreleaser).
