This commit adds a new GitHub Actions workflow that builds self-contained
binaries / executables and uploads them as release assets to the triggering
release. Publishing a release, drafting one doesn't count, will trigger this
workflow.
I personally used GitHub Actions only because it's the CI/CD platform(?)
I am familiar with. Only Windows and Linux binaries are supported since
I don't have any systems running Mac OS.
For Linux, I had originally planned to use the manylinux2010 docker image
the PyPA provides for highly compatible wheel building, but unfortunately
it wasn't feasible due to GitHub Actions and PyInstaller incompatibilities.
As a stopgap the oldest versions of Linux and Windows are used although
Windows Server 2019 isn't that old nor is Ubuntu 16.04! I guess someone
(maybe me) could work out something else if compatibility is big problem.
A few things you should know about the workflow:
- You don't need to set the `GITHUB_TOKEN` secret as it is automatically
provided by GitHub.
- matrix.pathsep is used because PyInstaller configuration's format is OS
dependent for some reason ...
Also it's worth mentioning that Black once had Travis CI and AppVeyor
configuration that did the same thing as this commit. They were committed
in mid 2018 and worked (somewhat) well. Eventually we stopped using AppVeyor
and the refactor to packages broke the Travis CI config. This commit
replaces the still existing and broken Travis CI config wholesale.
Co-authored-by: Anders Fredrik Kiær <31612826+anders-kiaer@users.noreply.github.com>
- Anders told me that I could get the release asset upload URL directly
from the github.event.release payload. I originally planned to use
bruceadams/get-release to get such URL.
