Package Registry Publishing

Distribution plan for the Language Check CLI binary across package registries.

crates.io

The Rust crate is published directly from the rust-core directory.

cd rust-core
cargo publish --dry-run
cargo publish

Checklist:

• Ensure Cargo.toml has correct name, version, description, license, repository

• Add categories and keywords for discoverability

• Verify README.md is included via readme field

Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

Formula

class LanguageCheck < Formula
  desc "Fast multi-engine prose linter for Markdown, HTML, and LaTeX"
  homepage "https://github.com/KaiErikNiermann/LangCheck"
  version "0.1.0"

  on_macos do
    if Hardware::CPU.arm?
      url "https://github.com/KaiErikNiermann/LangCheck/releases/download/v0.1.0/language-check-server-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz"
      sha256 "PLACEHOLDER"
    else
      url "https://github.com/KaiErikNiermann/LangCheck/releases/download/v0.1.0/language-check-server-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz"
      sha256 "PLACEHOLDER"
    end
  end

  on_linux do
    if Hardware::CPU.arm?
      url "https://github.com/KaiErikNiermann/LangCheck/releases/download/v0.1.0/language-check-server-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
      sha256 "PLACEHOLDER"
    else
      url "https://github.com/KaiErikNiermann/LangCheck/releases/download/v0.1.0/language-check-server-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
      sha256 "PLACEHOLDER"
    end
  end

  def install
    bin.install "language-check-server"
  end

  test do
    assert_match "language-check", shell_output("#{bin}/language-check-server --version")
  end
end

Tap setup

# Create a tap repository: homebrew-lang-check
brew tap KaiErikNiermann/lang-check
brew install KaiErikNiermann/lang-check/language-check

winget (Windows)

Manifest

Create manifests/g/KaiErikNiermann/language-check/0.1.0/ in the winget-pkgs repository:

KaiErikNiermann.language-check.yaml:

PackageIdentifier: KaiErikNiermann.language-check
PackageVersion: 0.1.0
PackageName: Language Check
Publisher: KaiErikNiermann
License: ISC
ShortDescription: Fast multi-engine prose linter
InstallerType: portable
Installers:
  - Architecture: x64
    InstallerUrl: https://github.com/KaiErikNiermann/LangCheck/releases/download/v0.1.0/language-check-server-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.exe
    InstallerSha256: PLACEHOLDER
ManifestType: singleton
ManifestVersion: 1.6.0

Submit via PR to microsoft/winget-pkgs.

AUR (Arch Linux)

PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: KaiErikNiermann
pkgname=language-check-bin
pkgver=0.1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Fast multi-engine prose linter for Markdown, HTML, and LaTeX"
arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
url="https://github.com/KaiErikNiermann/LangCheck"
license=('ISC')
provides=('language-check')

source_x86_64=("$url/releases/download/v$pkgver/language-check-server-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
source_aarch64=("$url/releases/download/v$pkgver/language-check-server-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu")
sha256sums_x86_64=('PLACEHOLDER')
sha256sums_aarch64=('PLACEHOLDER')

package() {
    install -Dm755 "language-check-server-"* "$pkgdir/usr/bin/language-check-server"
}

Publishing

# Clone AUR package
git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/language-check-bin.git
cd language-check-bin
# Add PKGBUILD and .SRCINFO
makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO
git add PKGBUILD .SRCINFO
git commit -m "Initial upload: language-check-bin 0.1.0"
git push

Debian/Ubuntu (.deb)

Using cargo-deb

cd rust-core
cargo install cargo-deb
cargo deb

Add to Cargo.toml:

[package.metadata.deb]
name = "language-check"
maintainer = "KaiErikNiermann <noreply@KaiErikNiermann.dev>"
depends = "$auto"
section = "text"
priority = "optional"
assets = [
    ["target/release/language-check-server", "/usr/bin/", "755"],
]

Release Automation

GitHub Actions workflow

name: Release
on:
  push:
    tags: ["v*"]

jobs:
  build:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        include:
          - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
            os: ubuntu-latest
          - target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
            os: ubuntu-latest
          - target: x86_64-apple-darwin
            os: macos-latest
          - target: aarch64-apple-darwin
            os: macos-latest
          - target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
            os: windows-latest
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
        with:
          targets: ${{ matrix.target }}
      - run: cargo build --release --target ${{ matrix.target }}
        working-directory: rust-core
      - name: Create checksum
        run: sha256sum target/${{ matrix.target }}/release/language-check-server* > language-check-server-${{ matrix.target }}.sha256
      - uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          files: |
            rust-core/target/${{ matrix.target }}/release/language-check-server*
            language-check-server-${{ matrix.target }}.sha256

  publish-crate:
    needs: build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
      - run: cargo publish --token ${{ secrets.CARGO_TOKEN }}
        working-directory: rust-core

  publish-homebrew:
    needs: build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: dawidd6/action-homebrew-bump-formula@v4
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.HOMEBREW_TOKEN }}
          formula: language-check