2017-04-12 14:56 GMT+02:00 Lars via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>: > Is github okay with this idea though as they are really not a download > system like sourceforge or google code... > > They are more for source revision and not so much for final release > downloads, although, this needs to be clarified as you can indeed just make > a tag to release.. But as soon as you start distributing binaries on github, > it sort of violates their policy. But, I suppose pacakages are not binaries > like a final exe release of a program to be shipped. And lazarus/fpc is > fairly uncommon and not very popular so github is likely not going to notice > a bandwidth increase on their servers anyway. I think github is against > becoming a download website to reduce their costs and focus on being a > source revision system, not a distribution system like sourceforge. >
GitHub is absolutely fine with uploading binary packages as a release. You can make a release on GitHub where a specific version of your source is accompanied by your binaries. https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/ Regards, Michalis -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
