Self-contained WIT artifacts as directories

[alexcrichton]

One thing I think would be nice to have as part of the WASI release process would be an artifact that's just a wit directory with all of the WIT files contained within. This would enable using WITs without also requiring a dependency on wkg which I feel can be useful from a "lean tooling" perspective and also helps transition to a world where WITs are fully managed by a tool eventually. In the long run though I think there'll always be use cases for taking the WITs from here as-is in a simple-ish fashion (e.g. wkg-less) and integrating them into a project.

[ricochet]

Are you thinking a tar.gz of each proposal, e.g. wasi-http-0.2.9.tar.gz, or would it be more preferable to have them all like wit.tar.gz? Just a heads up, the release train has us releasing next Tuesday.

[alexcrichton]

I was thinking ideally a single wit.tar.gz or something like that which is suitable to pass to wasm-tools component wit or similar. Effectively a canonical thing (ish) to curl-and-unpack and ready to go after things are aligned. No rush on this though, if it takes a moment to set up I think that's reasonable.

[ricochet]

This was added to the latest release: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/releases/download/v0.2.10/wasi-wit-0.2.10.tar.gz