Previously `make fetch-gui` extracted the GUI release into cmd/gui/dist/
and the unpacked tree was embedded uncompressed via `//go:embed dist`.
This commits and embeds the GUI bundle (dist.zip) and its release tag
(dist.tag) to the repo so:
- the rclone binary is smaller
- `go build` works on a fresh clone without first running fetch-gui
- a given commit pins an exact GUI version
The "Fetch GUI" step was removed from .github/workflows/build.yml.
- Fail gracefully if `make fetch-gui` hasn't been run
- Return errors instead of panic or fatal errrors
- Don't run `make fetch-gui` on every make since we have it in the workflow
The fetch-gui-dist.sh script calls the GitHub releases API
unauthenticated, which is limited to 60 requests/hour per source IP.
GitHub Actions runners share outbound IPs, so this quota is regularly
exhausted.
Pass GITHUB_TOKEN (or GH_TOKEN) as an Authorization header when
present, raising the limit to 1000/hour, and wire secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN
into the workflow step. Local unauthenticated runs still work.
This adds a new gui command which runs an embedded copy of the GUI at
https://github.com/rclone/rclone-web/
The GUI release is fetched as part of the CI build.
Nick Craig-Wood
FTCHDandGitHub