release.yml

name: Release

# Tag-driven only — see docs/DEPLOYING.md "Releasing". Never hand-upload
# installers; pushing a v* tag is the one and only path to a GitHub Release.
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v*'

permissions:
  contents: write # electron-builder needs this to create the release + upload assets

jobs:
  release:
    # Pinned, not windows-latest: that alias moved to a VS2026 (18.x) image
    # and node-gyp doesn't recognize that version yet ("Could not find any
    # Visual Studio installation" rebuilding node-pty — nodejs/node-gyp#3282).
    # windows-2022 keeps the VS2022 toolchain node-gyp actually understands.
    runs-on: windows-2022
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 22

      # node-gyp's bundled gyp still imports distutils, which Python 3.12+
      # dropped from the standard library — pin 3.11 so rebuilding node-pty
      # doesn't die with "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'".
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.11'

      - run: npm ci

      - run: npm run release:publish
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}