Support cargo-generate - Githubissues

armandas commented 5 days ago

cargo-generate is a popular tool for generating projects from templates and significantly lowers the barrier to starting. This PR makes changes to support cargo-generate, enabling users to start a project with a single line:

cargo generate --git https://github.com/emilk/eframe_template

The core changes are:

Replacing hard-coded project name and author with appropriate template placeholders
Deleting scripts for filling in the templates

However, the bulk of changes are in order to update the github actions. The flow is as follows:

First, a project is generated using cargo-generate
The generated project is uploaded as an artifact
Each subsequent action downloads the generated project, instead of checking out the repository

Tangential changes to the actions:

actions-rs actions are no longer maintained, so their usage has been removed. For rust toolchain, I'm using dtolnay/rust-toolchain action. Cargo commands are now just written out, instead of relying on an action.
trunk is installed using cargo binstall instead of using wget

c-git commented 2 days ago

I love the idea but wouldn't this make it incompatible with using the github template feature?

armandas commented 2 days ago

Yeah, I guess that would be the reason to keep the scripts around...

c-git commented 3 hours ago

Yeah, I guess if they use the GitHub template they can just change it manually or use the script (which will need to be updated).

emilk / eframe_template

Support cargo-generate #169