[Feature] - Create source tarball of releases containing all gitmodules

[ehaupt]

Requested Feature

I know how to clone the git repository recursively in order to checkout all gitmodules but for packaging purposes (I am packaging/porting the FreeBSD version) that is not very convenient.

Could you please create source tarballs that contain all gitmodules? Before you mention the assets that allow to download a .tar.gz, those don't contain the gitmodules:

Providing a tarball that contains all the submodules has the following advantages for packager:

• tarball contains all submodules
• at the exact version it was released (not just a lose branch; yes submodules have the capability to use tags but this project doesn't do that)
• packaging frameworks can use simple, single fetch (fetch, wget) to get the entire source code

Thank you for your consideration.

[OPNA2608]

I could prolly write another CI job for this so it's done automatically on the next release. Would that be fine or do you require a source tarball on the latest release as well?

[ehaupt]

Thank you, I think it would be fine for the next release. I could create a tarball for this release and self-host it.

[OPNA2608]

I could create a tarball for this release and self-host it.

I have re-tagged a v0.5.0 on my fork with #450 cherry-picked and uploaded the source tarball from that to our v0.5.0 release. I hope this helps with your packaging effort.