ZLS new compression - zst instead of gz

[candrewlee14]

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I've recently downloaded the latest plugin version of mason.nvim

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Problem description

The latest version of zls, the language server for Zig, cannot be installed. zls changed the release compression format from *.tar.gz to *.tar.zst. Right now, when trying to install zls, I get a 404 URL error and installation fails.

Expected behavior

Run :LspInstall zls and the download succeeds and decompresses from the right link.

Steps to reproduce

1. :LspInstall zls

Affected packages

zls

Neovim version (>= 0.7)

NVIM v0.8.0-1210-gd367ed9b2 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3

Operating system/version

WSL2 Linux

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[g15ecb]

Bumped into this just now as well. Quick scan of Mason source code: looks like support for *.tar.zst needs to be added, e.g. in GitHub manager -- untarzst_release_file. Then in zls registry:

install = function(ctx)
        local asset_file = coalesce(
            when(platform.is.mac, "x86_64-macos.tar.zst"),
            when(platform.is.linux_x64, "x86_64-linux.tar.zst"),
            when(platform.is.linux_x86, "i386-linux.tar.zst"),
            when(platform.is.win_x64, "x86_64-windows.tar.zst")
        )
        github
            .untarzst_release_file({
                repo = "zigtools/zls",
                asset_file = asset_file,
            })
            .with_receipt()

All the releases of zls prior to 0.10.0 are still .tar.gz so I suppose it's easier to just support everything but >= 0.10.0? I'm assuming that zls team from now on are going to just release pre-build binaries using zstd.

[williamboman]

All the releases of zls prior to 0.10.0 are still .tar.gz so I suppose it's easier to just support everything but >= 0.10.0? I'm assuming that zls team from now on are going to just release pre-build binaries using zstd.

Yeah installing versions prior to 0.10.0 won't really work anymore as the installation script doesn't account for historic distribution methods

[candrewlee14]

For an unstable language like Zig, installing a previous version of zls wouldn’t make much sense right now so that seems reasonable.