Mac/Windows Release Uploader

[BenjamenMeyer]

We build a number of different artifacts as part of our release process. However, the release upload action used is only supported on Linux. We need an equivalent for Mac and Windows so that we can finish the release process for 0.9.x.

[BenjamenMeyer]

The one we use on Linux should easily port to Mac as its a simple Bash script; the maintainer though doesn't have Mac/windows so doesn't want to support anything other than Linux (can't blame them). If we wanted to migrate it we could fork and add Mac support (easy) and Windows support (port to PowerShell). WOuldn't be hard, but we'd have to maintain it.

The ones provided by GitHub seem to be more oriented around PRs and have auto-expiry on the uploads though the URL is similar to what GH Action we use on Linux uses so not sure.

Are there others that would work?

[stephengtuggy]

Can we just use the upload-artifacts action that we use for test results?

[BenjamenMeyer]

Can we just use the upload-artifacts action that we use for test results?

that seems to have a 90-day expiration from what I can tell - meaning we'd lose the artifacts after 90 days. Other than that I see no reason not to - and I could very well have misread something about that too. It would certainly be nice to use the GH provided actions for things like this, and we can certainly try it with the alphas/betas and see what happens.

[daviewales]

It's definitely possible to upload build files to releases.
This might help?

https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release?tab=readme-ov-file#%EF%B8%8F-uploading-release-assets

[BenjamenMeyer]

NOTE: In looking at the tooling we're using for Linux vs the upload-artifacts tooling - they're very very similar.