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Reference: Project layout and modules

Project layout and modules · rule

toolchain.version_older

Project is on an earlier Jadpo line.

Area 1, Project layout and modules; not declinable; the next step is usually the human's.

app.jadpo names the Jadpo release line the project is written for, and while Jadpo is at 0.x a minor release may break an app, so a later jadpo doesn't compile a project on an earlier line. The installed jadpo runs that line's release for you (Which jadpo runs); one that can't, because it was told to run everything itself (JADPO_TOOLCHAIN=local) or couldn't fetch the release, refuses the project with this error alone:

example
application {    jadpo: "0.0"}
text
error: This project needs Jadpo 0.0 --> app.jadpo:2:12  |2 |     jadpo: "0.0"  |            ^^^^^ earlier than this jadpo  reason: `jadpo:` names the release line the project is written for, 0.0, which is earlier than this jadpo's (`jadpo --version` shows it). A 0.x minor release may break an app, so this jadpo doesn't compile the project itself.  next: Run it with Jadpo 0.0, which the installed `jadpo` fetches unless `JADPO_TOOLCHAIN` is `local` (human)  rule: toolchain.version_older  help: https://jadpo.dev/docs/errors/toolchain.version_oldercheck failed: 1 error, 1 file

When the installed jadpo couldn't fetch the release, its reason starts with why, and its next step fits: run again once github.com can be reached; name a published line; set XDG_CACHE_HOME when there is no cache folder; or, for a download that failed its SHA-256 or attestation check, run again to fetch it afresh, then install the newest jadpo, whose trusted root may be newer, if it fails the same way. When GitHub's API refuses for its hourly limit, it says so and to run again in an hour. A project moving to a later line changes jadpo: once its code is brought up to that line.

Markdown for agents: /docs/errors/toolchain.version_older.md.Built from Jadpo main at a707efb.