what is the best practice of distributing binaries from a github project?
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Solution
It is clear to me now that it is important not to store binaries in your github project itself. Thus, you will need to store binaries elsewhere. Possible solutions I came across are:
- Store the binaries in a separate submodule (dalores idea). It makes sense to store them in your projects github pages, which you use to host your projects website via github.
- If you have only a few binaries or zip file only, you can upload them to github via Downloads -> Upload a new file. This feature is quite limited though, you cannot put files in structured folders.
- In case of java jar files, there are solutions out there like Nexus for managing your libraries.
- Store the binaries on a completely separate site that you host yourself
Problem
what is the best practice of distributing binaries from a github project? I can think of: - Create a bin folder in your project where you keep a copy of the binaries. However, github is meant to store source code and not binaries Storing large and regularly changing binaries may be expensive qua diskspace and bandwidth? - Upload a copy of the binaries to the github pages of the project, or use a separate web site for hosting your binaries. However, that is not always feasible, and requires more (hand)work to keep the binaries up to date, I rather want to have the binaries updated automatically or with a single action.