Add release tags for standalone branch

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2019 - 2025 Alexander Grund
+# Copyright 2019 - 2026 Alexander Grund
 # Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
 # https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
 
@@ -18,19 +18,33 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
     env:
       DEP_DIR: ${{github.workspace}}/dependencies
-      BOOST_VERSION: 1.66.0
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Extract tag name
+      - name: Extract tag name and matching commit on standalone branch
         id: get_tag
         run: |
           echo "Running for $GITHUB_EVENT_NAME event"
+          git fetch origin master develop standalone
           if [[ "$GITHUB_EVENT_NAME" == "push" ]]; then
             echo "tag=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            SOURCE_SHA=$(git merge-base "${{github.sha}}" origin/develop)
           else
             version=$(grep "set(_version " CMakeLists.txt | head -n1 | sed 's/^.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\).*$/\1/')
             echo "tag=v$version" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            SOURCE_SHA=$(git rev-parse origin/develop)
           fi
+          SOURCE_SHA=$(git rev-parse --short "$SOURCE_SHA")
+          # Find matching standalone commit hash
+          standalone_commit_matches=$(git log origin/standalone --format="%H" --grep="^Source commit: $SOURCE_SHA\$")
+          if ! count=$(grep -c . <<<"$standalone_commit_matches"); then
+            echo "ERROR: Did not found source commit for $SOURCE_SHA"
+            exit 1
+          elif [[ $count -ne 1 ]]; then
+            echo "ERROR: Found more than 1 related commit: $standalone_commit_matches"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "source_commit=$SOURCE_SHA" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "standalone_commit=$standalone_commit_matches" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
       - name: Sanity check version
         run: |
           version=${{steps.get_tag.outputs.tag}}
@@ -42,7 +56,8 @@ jobs:
           fi
       - name: Create documentation
         run: |
-          sudo apt-get install doxygen
+          sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=3 -y -q --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends update
+          sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=3 -y -q --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends install doxygen
           doc/gendoc.sh
           tar -czf documentation.tar.gz doc index.html
 
@@ -69,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
             cp -r build cmake config include src test CMakeLists.txt Config.cmake.in "$FOLDER"
             tar -czf nowide.tar.gz "$FOLDER"
       - name: Install boost
-        run: sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev
+        run: sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=3 -y -q --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends install -y libboost-all-dev
       - name: Test Boost release tarball
         run: |
           tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d -p "$RUNNER_TEMP")
@@ -88,6 +103,20 @@ jobs:
           mv nowide_standalone.tar.gz nowide_standalone_${{steps.get_tag.outputs.tag}}.tar.gz
           mv documentation.tar.gz nowide_docu.tar.gz
 
+      - name: Tag standalone branch
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.email "$GITHUB_ACTOR@users.noreply.github.com"
+          git config --global user.name "$GITHUB_ACTOR"
+          version=${{steps.get_tag.outputs.tag}}
+          tag_name=standalone-$version
+          git tag -a "$tag_name" "${{steps.get_tag.outputs.standalone_commit}}" \
+            -m "Standalone version for v$version" \
+            -m "Source-Commit: ${{steps.get_tag.outputs.source_commit}}"
+          git show "$tag_name"
+          if [[ "{{github.event_name}}" == "push" ]]; then
+            git push origin "$tag_name"
+          fi
+
       - name: Create Release
         if: github.event_name == 'push'
         uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2

doc/main.dox

@@ -429,7 +429,10 @@ The meaning of a locale under POSIX and Windows platforms is different and has v
 
 \subsection standalone_version Standalone Version
 
-It is possible to use Nowide library without having the huge Boost project as a dependency. There is a standalone version that has all the functionality in the \c nowide namespace instead of \c boost::nowide. The example above would look like
+It is possible to use the Nowide library without having the huge Boost project as a dependency.
+There is a standalone version that has all the functionality in the \c nowide namespace instead of \c boost::nowide.
+
+The example above would look like this:
 
 \code
 #include <nowide/args.hpp>
@@ -469,5 +472,10 @@ The upstream sources can be found at GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/boostor
 You can download the latest sources there:
 
 - Standard Version: <a href="https://github.com/boostorg/nowide/archive/master.zip">nowide-master.zip</a>
+- Standalone Version: <a href="https://github.com/boostorg/nowide/archive/standalone.zip">nowide-standalone.zip</a> (automatically populated from the develop branch)
+
+See the <a href="https://github.com/boostorg/nowide/releases">Releases section on GitHub</a> for Downloads of tagged releases.
+Both the standard (Boost) and standalone sources can be downloaded there along with the HTML documentation in a separate archive.
+Tags for the standalone version are prefixed with "standalone-" so they can be fetched too.
 
 */