Thanks @Jason, but the point was exactly not need to do anything extra: no manual unzipping of a file, or manual Makefile/Magefile.
Let's say project in Go links some 30 external modules, 5 of them have their own specific steps that need to be read, understood and and run to install them ... very quickly the user just gives up from installing/compiling the thing, with good reason ... The Go toolset solves that beautifully for Go only projects. But at least in my line of work, that's not feasible, I need to interface with libraries that in turn require other libraries in C++ (OpenXLA/llvm for JIT), Rust (HuggingFace Tokenizer), C (Gtk), etc. cheers On Monday, October 30, 2023 at 7:42:19 PM UTC+1 Jason E. Aten wrote: > > including the `.a` (static libraries) in the Github just got to its > limit (100Mb) > > I have used bzip2 to compress libraries that are too big for Github. If > that gets them under the limit, then great. > Just provide installation instructions or a Makefile target that > decompresses them once checked out. > > (Or xz? Apparently it can compress more than bzip2; but I have no > experience with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils ) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/096e5389-d183-4b2a-bb6b-b136398dc5acn%40googlegroups.com.
