github actions improvement

[mcuee]

1. Apple Silicon macOS build -- we have to wait github infrastructure to be ready first

• Add Apple M1 silicon to Nightly-Builds #1677

2. Deploy action -- to include MSYS2 mingw64/mingw32 binaries upon formal release like 7.3.

3. Deploy action for Arduino-packing github action upon formal release like 7.3.

4. It may be good to add github actions for BSDs.

[mcuee]

Deploy action -- to include MSYS2 mingw64/mingw32 binaries upon formal release like 7.3.

Currently the deploy github action only upload Windows MSVC binaries.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/actions/runs/7813933855

The mingw32/mingw64 github action binaries will not have the correct version number, but rather one commit after.

Edit: the above deploy github action does build MSYS2 mingw32/mingw64/clang32/clang64/ucrt64 binaries for avrdude 7.3 release. So we can decide whether to upload them or not.

[mcuee]

As for the binaries generated by arduino-packing script, as of now, the script does not deal with releases yet.So the version number will not matching -- one commit after the release tag.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/arduino_packing.yml

@umbynos
The avrdude-packing script in this repo is a cut-down version of your more detailed script. One missing feature is to deal with the tagged release (say 7.3 release). Just wondering if you can help here. Thanks.

[umbynos]

Hey @mcuee what do you mean by this?

One missing feature is to deal with the tagged release (say 7.3 release).

[mcuee]

@umbynos

As of now, the action is only executed upon git push to git main, but not release tagging.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/arduino_packing.yml

Your original version is okay but I do not know how to adapt it to avrdude git main.
https://github.com/arduino/avrdude-packing/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml

[mcuee]

Related issue:

• Avrdude 7.3 arduino/avrdude-packing#31
• Add libserialport for future avrdude release arduino/crossbuild#13

[mcuee]

As of now, the action is only executed upon git push to git main, but not release tagging.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/arduino_packing.yml

@umbynos
I have created a new PR to address the above issue. But I am not so sure if this is the right solution or not. Please review. Thanks.

• Adding arduino_packing_release github action #1690

[ndim]

4. It may be good to add github actions for BSDs.

GitHub only has Ubuntu, Windows and OSX workers.

However, Cirrus CI has a free offer for Open Source Projects which includes CI builds on FreeBSD.

[mcuee]

4. It may be good to add github actions for BSDs.

GitHub only has Ubuntu, Windows and OSX workers.

However, Cirrus CI has a free offer for Open Source Projects which includes CI builds on FreeBSD.

There are some changes now. Please refer to the following discussions.

• Adding github actions for NetBSD/OpenBSD and maybe other OSes libusb/libusb#1466
• Consider 3rdparty Github Actions for *bsd builds libusb/hidapi#477