WIP GitHub workflows - fixing macos - #11

Cool. Will check back later today/tomorrow and merge if it seems to be working.

BTW, thank you very much for your hard work on hardening the deployment of this repo on non-Linux!

The failure looks specific to dups.nim and its SSL dependency. As I mentioned I never test on OSX Arm64, but I do recognize that this is the 2026-relevant platform. So, this is a high-value test.

A whole other second approach is to just have secureHash resolve to lib/std/sha1.nim or md5 which are pure Nim but both are deprecated. I realize both hashes were broken in crypto terms decades ago, but dups.nim even has a --cmp flag and the threat model here is just a missed detection of a duplicate.

A third possibility is to just add checksums to the .nimble and also depend on that. A fourth is to just vendor-in checksums/src/checksums/private/sha_utils.nim and checksums/src/checksums/sha2.nim, neither of which has changed meaningfully in years. My initial feeling was "everyone would have some arch-efficient lib installed already for https:// if nothing else". A fifth possibility is to link against whatever is "more native" on OSX for this call rather than "brew something", if Apple has a history of stability for that.

Switching action from nim-lang/setup-nimble-action to jiro4989/setup-nim-action@v1 will do the do!

Same fix should be done to release.yml
from - uses: nim-lang/setup-nimble-action@v1 to - uses: jiro4989/setup-nim-action@v1

For release.yml: Windows is no in the matrix. I think there is an issue at cligen-1.11.0, initially mentioned in the PR #10 description

We may want to leave Windows out of the matrix for now/maybe forever. If you look at bu.nimble you will see that something like half of the utilities are Unix-only. I think the only truly Linux-only program is dirq.

release.yml has workflow_dispatch in the YAML. At https://github.com/c-blake/bu/actions/workflows/release.yml, you can run the workflow to test it

I did it on my fork version (also had to make add-gh-workflow as main branch so I can dispatch the workflow manually but that is not important) - all green, it will stop after building the artifacts since is a manual dispatch and there is no new tag pushed to create the release

Sounds good to me. Will merge.