Add temporary builds from GitHub Actions

[skejserjensen]

This PR mainly closes #364 by creating builds for aarch64 macOS, x86_64 Windows, and x86_64 Linux for each commit to the main branch and uploading them to GitHub as Artifacts. Thus, the latest builds can be found in the Artifacts window for the latest Workflow that completed successfully. To make users aware of this, the installation documentation has been extended with information about how to install ModelarDB from these builds. While extending the main GitHub Action to create builds, unnecessary steps were also removed, and the workflow was made as consistent as possible. The -W was also added to sphinx.cmd.build to make GitHub Action stop if an error occurs. Thus, a sphinx error and a sphinx warning also had to be fixed. Finally, a tiny update to deltalake was included to not require an entire PR for such a small change.

As this PR creates builds for some platforms, it is also a step towards #210. To create stable versioned releases from the builds created by this PR, a workflow that only runs when a version tag is being pushed can probably be used, e.g., on: push: tags: - 'v*'. This workflow can then just download the build artifacts and create a release from them, similar to the steps shown below. Although be aware that these steps are not thoroughly tested. Also, see the documentation for softprops/action-gh-release for how to automatically set name and tag_name instead of hardcoding them as in the example below.

create_release:
  name: Create Versioned Release
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  needs: build_and_upload_binaries
  steps:
    - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
      with:
        path: .
    - name: Upload to Release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
      with:
        name: v0.1.0
        tag_name: v0.1.0
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        files: *.zip

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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds automated binary builds for aarch64 macOS, x86_64 Windows, and x86_64 Linux on every commit to the main branch, making development builds available as GitHub Actions artifacts for 90 days. The workflow has been enhanced and streamlined, and documentation has been added to inform users how to access these builds.

• Adds a new build_and_upload_binaries job to the GitHub Actions workflow that builds and uploads binaries after successful testing
• Updates documentation with instructions on how to download and use the temporary builds from GitHub Actions artifacts
• Upgrades the deltalake dependency from version 0.29.3 to 0.29.4

Reviewed Changes

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File	Description
docs/user/README.md	Adds new "Installation from Builds" section documenting how to access temporary builds from GitHub Actions artifacts
.github/workflows/build-lint-test-and-upload.yml	Renames workflow, removes redundant Windows-specific setup, standardizes quote styles, reorders Python build steps, and adds new job to build and upload binaries for all platforms
Cargo.toml	Updates deltalake dependency from 0.29.3 to 0.29.4
Cargo.lock	Updates lockfile with new deltalake version and its transitive dependencies (ctor, ctor-proc-macro, dtor, dtor-proc-macro)
crates/modelardb_embedded/bindings/python/docs/_static/.gitignore	Adds .gitignore file with Apache license header to ensure the _static directory exists for Sphinx

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

.github/workflows/build-lint-test-and-upload.yml:188

• On Windows, executable files require the .exe extension. The mv commands will fail because the source files are named modelardb.exe, modelardbb.exe, modelardbd.exe, and modelardbm.exe on Windows, not without the extension. Consider adding conditional logic to handle the Windows case:

if [[ "$RUNNER_OS" == "Windows" ]]; then
  mv target/release/modelardb.exe modelardb_$RUST_TRIPLE/
  mv target/release/modelardbb.exe modelardb_$RUST_TRIPLE/
  mv target/release/modelardbd.exe modelardb_$RUST_TRIPLE/
  mv target/release/modelardbm.exe modelardb_$RUST_TRIPLE/
else
  mv target/release/modelardb modelardb_$RUST_TRIPLE/
  mv target/release/modelardbb modelardb_$RUST_TRIPLE/
  mv target/release/modelardbd modelardb_$RUST_TRIPLE/
  mv target/release/modelardbm modelardb_$RUST_TRIPLE/
fi

.github/workflows/build-lint-test-and-upload.yml:161

• Grammar error in the comment: "reduce" should be "reduces". The comment should read: # --jobs 1 reduces resource use.

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