Lazygit: Releases / Binary Distribution

[cookiengineer]

Is there a way to distribute binaries in this project by using the releases/tags for it?

It would heavily improve the installation for people not familiar with go and people that don't have a working go setup and just want to build a simple package for a binary.

[jesseduffield]

Yeah that sounds like a good idea. I'm not very across how to set up a good release workflow. There's a PR (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pull/20) up that does this for ubuntu but it's pending my question about how to update etc. Does anybody have some pointers on the best way to do this?

[dawidd6]

Maybe build binary on some kind of CI service like travis-ci and then upload it somewhere with link attached in README.

[cookiengineer]

@jesseduffield What I did for my projects is that on my buildbot I use curl to upload the binaries into the releases section automatically after they've been built and tested.

AFAIK circle and travis both have a github releases API that also allows you to push the binaries to github afterwards, but I don't know their limitations on that.

(My binaries were too big, as it was around 12GB of system images etc. so I had to use a VPS for that.)

[fleaz]

Hey,

I started to use GoReleaser a few days ago for some of my Go projects. You have a pretty simple .goreleaser.yml in your repository and when you run goreleaser on a commit with a tag, it will automatically build binarys for macos/linux/windows and also 32/64bit depending on your configuration and because you gave him an API token for Github it will push them directly to the 'Releases' section.
You can take a look at my testrepo which contains configuration for GoReleaser and also TravisCI to automatically build new tags.

Felix

[Code0x58]

I've used Travis to build binaries before for releases on github, then you can just have download based instructions (or use those binaries in package managers):

example PR on atombender/ktail with setup instructions.

[jesseduffield]

I ended up using travis ci and we've got releases / binaries working :) Please feel free to have a look at the .travis.yml and see if there's any improvements that could be made

[dawidd6]

Can we also build binaries for other architectures like arm and arm64?

[jesseduffield]

yep, getting onto that now

[jesseduffield]

we have LIFTOFF https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases (note I've removed the version number from the end of the file because we now store that in the binary itself)

[jesseduffield]

closing

[Tallefer]

@jesseduffield What do you think about adding 32 bit builds to the bunch?

[jesseduffield]

@Tallefer I've chucked 32 bit builds in the latest release :) https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/tag/v0.1.66