This is part of a larger discussion happening at [1].

It appears that the metamath-program.zip URL[0] points to a non-static archive.
Sadly, this is preventing me from packaging metamath for my Linux distribution.

Just for the sake of clarity, below are the SHA-256 sums of the archive
retrieved on the corresponding dates:

- 2020 Jan 28 75fe8e83c4fde2104e24e38da8480b512df3dff40d46e5d40e038bd7a73557de
- 2020 Feb 01 084bb35600823c8c6db4375203d239c5d05df4488ce035fd05da8918dea70261

Unfortunately, the newer archive overwrote the old on my machine, so I cannot
compare contents. From a cursory inspection, however, it looks how I remember.
My suspicion is that, perhaps as part of a larger automated process, the zip
metadata is getting refreshed.

Is there a way we could offer static, versioned, archives of the standalone
executable source? One common option for this would be to let GitHub host them
as "releases" for the metamath/metamath-exe repository. Though I have not tried
myself, the creation process looks quite easy:

https://help.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/creating-releases

Does it seem reasonable to make this happen, some way or another?


[0]:http://us2.metamath.org/downloads/metamath-program.zip
[1]:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/metamath/z2kKJYgnz-g/Z4mVlHVkAwAJ

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