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[jpillora]

It would be handy if there were binary releases for this repo. Since Go provides single binaries, this would allow for easy installs on servers in need a quick text editor (which isn't vi).

This can be done manually, or you can use https://github.com/jpillora/cloud-gox to automatically do it on each tag push. Give http://gox.jpillora.com/ a try with github.com/zyedidia/micro/src (will just hold binaries on disk).

Awesome project :) Feel free to close if not interested.

[zyedidia]

This tool looks pretty nice. I already have my own cross-compiling script for micro. Maybe in the future I'll use this though.

I'm going to close this for now because micro already has binary releases, but I might revisit it later.

[jpillora]

Ah yes, sorry I was looking for Github releases. Maybe you'd considering
swapping at some point since Github releases are served over HTTPS?
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 at 1:51 AM Zachary Yedidia notifications@github.com
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This tool looks pretty nice. I already have my own cross-compiling script
https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/tools/cross-compile.sh
for micro. Maybe in the future I'll use this though.

I'm going to close this for now because micro already has binary releases,
but I might revisit it later.

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[zyedidia]

Oh I see, yes that might be good.

Do you know if there is a way to provide nightly binaries with Github releases?

[jpillora]

They only work with tags, so you could use stable/nightly tags and just
keep resetting them as you go, alternatively, always tag new versions and
just keep a link to the known stable version in the README.
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Oh I see, yes that might be good.

Do you know if there is a way to provide nightly binaries with Github
releases?

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[benadamstyles]

Sorry to add to your workload but a quick question – how often do binaries get updated? Can I assume that the prebuilt binaries are always up to date (i.e. with every commit)? I can't find version info anywhere, either on this github repo or in micro itself.

[jpillora]

@Leeds-eBooks I'm quite sure the binaries in the README track master ("Nightly Binaries"). Though @zyedidia, you could embed the current time and commit with go build -ldflags (see here).

[zyedidia]

Those binaries are compiled every night at midnight (UTC time). You can see the git commit that it was compiled with using micro -version.

I also sometimes recompile after a large change is made.

[benadamstyles]

Thanks that's really helpful 😊

[zyedidia]

The binaries are now distributed using github releases.

[jpillora]

Awesome :)

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The binaries are now distributed using github releases.

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