facebook/sapling

Distro independent .tgz packages

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#160 opened on Nov 16, 2022

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Description

Right now, it looks like there are dedicated packages for windows, mac, but for linux there are only .deb packages. It would be very useful to have distro agnostic .tgz release packages as well.

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Determine the build and release workflow, then add a step to generate a .tgz archive for Linux.
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rust
Domain
release
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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GitRust
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75