More work on the CI script

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -19,13 +19,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-tags: true # required for "git describe"
-
-      # - name: Fetch more data from git
-      #   run: |
-      #     # fetch everything back till the $(ZIG_VERSION) tag.
-      #     # https://stackoverflow.com/a/58082274
-      #     git fetch --shallow-exclude ${{ env.ZIG_VERSION }}
-      #     git fetch --deepen=2
+          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Setup Zig
         uses: goto-bus-stop/setup-zig@v2
@@ -53,13 +47,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-tags: true # required for "git describe"
-
-      # - name: Fetch more data from git
-      #   run: |
-      #     # fetch everything back till the $(ZIG_VERSION) tag.
-      #     # https://stackoverflow.com/a/58082274
-      #     git fetch --shallow-exclude ${{ env.ZIG_VERSION }}
-      #     git fetch --deepen=2
+          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Setup Zig
         uses: goto-bus-stop/setup-zig@v2

tools/bundle.py

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     "zig",
     "git",
 ]
+REQUIRED_ZIG_VERSION="0.11.0"
 
 
 REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).parent.parent
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ def get_version_from_git() -> str:
     raw_git_out = slurp("git", "describe", "--match", "*.*.*", "--tags", "--abbrev=9", cwd=REPO_ROOT, allow_failure=True).strip().decode()
     if len(raw_git_out) == 0:
         print("failed to get version from git, using 'development'", file=sys.stderr)
-        return "development"
+        return f"{REQUIRED_ZIG_VERSION}-development"
 
     def render_version(major,minor,patch,counter,hash):
         return f"{major}.{minor}.{patch}-{counter}-{hash}"
@@ -249,7 +250,7 @@ def main():
 
     check_required_tools(REQUIRED_TOOLS)
 
-    check_zig_version("0.11.0")
+    check_zig_version(REQUIRED_ZIG_VERSION)
 
     print("preparing environment...")