ci: retry the Windows zip install and fail fast when it is missing

Merged
CO
11d ago
+36-1

Fixes #3088

The Windows "Compiled extensions" job installs zip through Chocolatey. When the community feed returns 503, choco install prints "installed 0/0 packages", exits 0, and the job carries on until scripts/build-binaries.sh fails much later with zip: command not found (exit 127), which looks like a failure of the PR under test (seen again today on #3154).

Change: the install step now retries up to 4 times with a short backoff and fails in that step unless zip is actually on PATH, naming the likely cause. No product code changes.

Verification: workflow YAML parses; the job runs on this PR (look for "zip:

Summary by cubic

Makes the Windows compiled-extensions CI job fail fast when Chocolatey doesn't actually install zip, so the real cause surfaces in the install step instead of much later as zip: command not found inside scripts/build-binaries.sh.

Bug Fixes

  • Retries choco install zip up to 4 times with a short backoff and fails the step unless zip is on PATH, since a 503 from the Chocolatey feed previously made choco install exit 0 without installing anything.
  • Adds a changelog entry in .github/changes.md documenting the behavior.