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fix(ci): make the toolchain version asserts diagnosable - #30

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CI / required failed on #28 at Typecheck the Idris2 ABI with no output at all:

idris2 --version | grep -Fx 'Idris 2, version 0.7.0'

The pipeline swallowed the version, grep -Fx matched nothing, and set -o pipefail
ended the step before anything reached the log — so the failure was undiagnosable
from CI alone.

Fix

Capture the version, echo it, then assert:

  • Idris2 now matches on the release (*"0.7.0"*) rather than the entire string.
    The digest-pinned idris2-pack image reports a build suffix, so exact-string
    equality could never have matched. The version pin is still enforced.
  • Zig keeps exact equality (0.15.2) but now reports what it actually found.

Both print their version on success too, so the log records which toolchain ran.

Follow-on from #28, which fixed the earlier failure in the same job (the image
ships no xz, so setup-zig could not unpack its .tar.xz).

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`idris2 --version | grep -Fx 'Idris 2, version 0.7.0'` failed the job with no
output whatsoever: the pipeline swallowed the version, grep matched nothing,
and `set -o pipefail` ended the step before anything was printed. The log gave
no clue what version was actually installed.

Capture the version, echo it, then assert. The Idris2 check now matches on the
release ("0.7.0") rather than the whole string, since the digest-pinned
idris2-pack image reports a build suffix. The Zig check keeps its exact
equality but now reports what it found when it fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#31)

Now that #30 made the assert diagnosable, the real mismatch is visible:

```
idris2 --version -> Idris 2, version 0.8.0-6ca00e72e
::error::expected Idris 2 0.7.0
```

The digest-pinned `idris2-pack` image ships **0.8.0**, so the `0.7.0`
assertion
could never have matched — `CI / required` has never passed on its own
terms.
This is the last red check on `main`.

## Which side is wrong?

Nothing in the repository actually requires 0.7.0:

- `abi.ipkg` declares **no version constraint** — it depends only on
`base`.
- The `idris2 0.7.0` line in `.tool-versions` is **commented out**, so
it pins nothing.
- The only 0.7.0 references were the workflow asserts and their
comments.

So "0.7.0" was stale documentation that drifted from the digest. The
**immutable
digest is the authority**, and the version notes are brought into step
with it
rather than the reverse. The typecheck now actually runs against the
toolchain
that is genuinely installed.

Also fixes the identical brittle assert in **`release.yml`**, which
piped
`idris2 --version` into `grep -Fx` under `pipefail` exactly as `ci.yml`
did — it
would have failed the same way, silently, on the next release.

## If 0.7.0 was intended

Then the fix is the other direction: re-pin the container to a 0.7.0
image digest.
Say so and I will swap it — but the current pair is contradictory either
way.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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