GitLab's API differs from GitHub: different URL pattern
(/api/v4/projects/:id/releases), nested asset structure
(sources + links), page/per_page pagination with X-Total-Pages
header, and PRIVATE-TOKEN auth.
Some packages (shell scripts, vim plugins) use the auto-generated
source archives rather than uploaded binary assets. These URLs are
already in the API response — just needed to be deserialized.
gitea: thin wrapper over githubish that appends /api/v1 to the base URL.
gittag: clones/fetches a bare repo, lists version-like tags with
commit metadata, includes HEAD. For packages installed by cloning
(vim plugins, shell scripts) rather than downloading binaries.
githubish: generic fetcher for any GitHub-compatible API (GitHub,
Gitea, Forgejo). Paginates via Link headers, supports Bearer auth.
Returns raw API data with no transformation.
github: thin wrapper that sets the base URL to api.github.com.
nodedist: generic fetcher for any Node.js-style dist index.json API.
Returns raw API entries with no transformation or normalization.
Uses iter.Seq2 for a paginated interface consistent across sources.
node: calls nodedist twice — official builds and unofficial builds
(musl, loong64, etc.) — yielding one batch per source.
The user agent identifies itself through multiple signals — the
User-Agent header and query parameters (?os, ?arch). FromRequest
unifies both, with explicit query params taking precedence.
buildmeta: remove premature Release/PackageMeta structs and
ChannelNames slice — keep only the shared vocabulary types.
uadetect: replace regex-based matching with token-based matching.
Split UA on whitespace/slash/semicolon, match lowercase tokens.
Strip xnu kernel info for Rosetta. Single Parse() entry point.
httpclient: return plain *http.Client from New(). Make Do() and Get()
free functions. Only retry idempotent methods (GET/HEAD).
Original preserves the upstream tag as the releaser published it (e.g.
"REL_17_0"), while Raw holds Webi's normalized form ("17.0").
ExtraSort is an opaque string for package-specific ordering where Nums
alone can't capture sort order (e.g. flutter "2.3.0-16.0.pre"). Set by
release-fetcher code using zero-padded strings or whatever works for
that package.
Versions aren't always semver — chromedriver uses 4 parts, gpg uses 4
parts, atomicparsley uses dates. Replaced fixed Major/Minor/Patch/Build
fields with a Nums slice. Date is now time.Time for minute-level
precision.
Also adds ODDITIES.md cataloging non-standard version formats across
Webi packages for future reference.
Build is often a hash with no ordering meaning. When release dates are
known, they're a better tiebreaker for versions with the same
major.minor.patch. Date is only used when both sides have one.
Instead of encoding versions as padded strings (a JS-ism), parse into a
Version struct and compare fields directly. Pre-releases sort before
their corresponding stable release via channel comparison.
Each package doc now explains what problem it solves and why it exists,
with the public interface as the only "how" detail. Implementation
notes removed from doc comments.
