build: speed up installations

[ifiokjr]

Description

Move around dependencies to speed up build times and installation times.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Streamlined build tool configuration and removed unused development dependencies
  • Updated CI/CD automation configuration for package management

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The PR removes three cargo tools (binstall, dylint, and dylint-link) from the workspace and adds cargo-release. It disables automated dependency updates for the cargo ecosystem in Dependabot, and adjusts the development environment to use cargo-binstall instead of cargo-release.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Cargo aliases \.cargo/config\.toml	Removed binstall and dylint alias entries; added release alias pointing to cargo-release.
Workspace members Cargo.toml	Removed workspace-bin entries for cargo-binstall, cargo-dylint, and dylint-link; added cargo-release as a workspace-bin entry.
CI and development tools \.github/dependabot\.yml, devenv.nix	Removed cargo package ecosystem configuration from Dependabot; replaced cargo-release with cargo-binstall in the development environment packages list.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~15 minutes

• Verify that removing cargo-binstall, cargo-dylint, and dylint-link from workspace members does not break any internal dependencies or build configurations.
• Confirm that cargo-release is properly configured and available in the workspace as a replacement.
• Validate that disabling Dependabot cargo updates aligns with the workspace maintenance strategy.

Poem

🐰 Three tools hop away, one hops in their place,
The release command speeds up the dev race,
Dependabot rests from cargo's routine,
A streamlined workspace, efficient and clean! ✨

Pre-merge checks and finishing touches

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'build: speed up installations' directly aligns with the PR's objective to improve build and installation times by reorganizing dependencies.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

✨ Finishing touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Post copyable unit tests in a comment
• Commit unit tests in branch build/improve-ci-times

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 9016a87 and 94820e3.

📒 Files selected for processing (4)

• .cargo/config.toml (1 hunks)
• .github/dependabot.yml (0 hunks)
• Cargo.toml (1 hunks)
• devenv.nix (1 hunks)

💤 Files with no reviewable changes (1)

• .github/dependabot.yml

🔇 Additional comments (3)

.cargo/config.toml (1)

113-113: LGTM - Alias correctly configured for cargo-release.

The release alias is properly configured to use the cargo-release bin added in Cargo.toml (line 156). This change is consistent with the removal of the bissinstall and dylint aliases and aligns with the PR's goal to streamline tooling.

Cargo.toml (1)

156-156: Verify intentional separation of development dependencies.

The search found that cargo-binstall is still referenced in devenv.nix at line 16. Since the snippet shows only cargo-release being added (not removals), it's unclear whether cargo-binstall was intentionally removed from Cargo.toml dependencies or should remain.

No references to cargo-dylint or dylint-link were found anywhere in the codebase.

Confirm whether cargo-binstall remaining in devenv.nix is intentional (as a development-only tool) or should be removed to match changes to Cargo.toml.

devenv.nix (1)

16-16: Integration verified and will work as expected.

cargo-run-bin automatically detects and uses cargo-binstall if installed to fetch prebuilt binaries. The devenv.nix changes are correct: cargo-binstall (line 16) and cargo-run-bin (line 17) are both in the packages list, and the install:cargo:bin script (lines 135-142) runs cargo bin --install, which will benefit from this optimization without requiring additional configuration.

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