The browser could not build from a clean clone on Windows: the fetch
was a bash script needing python3 and tar. It is Rust in build.rs now:
the spotify index is read by a strict scanner, the newest stable
standard build for the platform is picked (or MAKEPAD_CEF_VERSION pins
one), the archive is downloaded to a .part file with its size and sha1
checked, extracted beside it, and a current-<platform>.txt pointer file
names the dist — read before the old symlink, so the Mac keeps its
pinned 138 while a fresh box gets the current build; a platform that
already has a dist is never bumped. MAKEPAD_CEF_OFFLINE refuses with the
dir and pointer named; MAKEPAD_CEF_DRY_RUN prints the plan (with
MAKEPAD_CEF_PLATFORM to resolve another host's). Build-time deps only:
ureq (rustls), bzip2 (bundled), tar, sha1_smol. The shell script is gone.
Proven on this Mac: a pinned re-download of the 138 macosarm64 archive
(255 MB, sha1 verified) differs in nothing from the existing dist over
1,193 files; dry runs for linux64 and windows64 pick the archives already
on disk; the browser checks with no download; the cef crate's build deps
compile for the windows-msvc and linux-gnu hosts. Picker and pointer
tests 5. An actual download on Windows or Linux is not yet run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
