[Improvement] Make pre-built binaries standalone

[fuero]

Is your improvement request related to a problem? Please describe. I'd like to use GitVersion standalone without the .Net Framework present

Detailed Description

Provide another set of binaries that are built like this (example for Linux):

  dotnet publish \
    src/GitVersion.App/GitVersion.App.csproj \
    --runtime linux-x64 \
    --framework net6.0 \
    --sc \
    -o "${srcdir}/build" \
    /p:DebugType=None \
    /p:DebugSymbols=false \
    -p:PublishTrimmed=false \
    -p:PublishReadyToRun=true \
    -p:PublishSingleFile=true \
    -p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true

I'm building GitVersion this way in the AUR package I created: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=gitversion

[arturcic]

Hey @fuero we dropped support for .net framework already, all the artifacts are build with the .net sdk only. You can see the way we currently build for the linux binaries we publish with the release: https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/blob/632597434d19319d281b697ae21743a3fe10c671/build/build/Tasks/Package/PackagePrepare.cs#L47.

I wonder if there is a way we can integrate the publishing of the AUR package into our release pipelines. Can you describe how a AUR package publishing happens? We can have something similar to how we build for homebrew

[fuero]

Sorry, I was mistaken. The binaries the homebrew package produces apparantly can't run without a .Net dependency, the binaries offered on Github are fine.

As for AUR - They're published by the author via git, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Submitting_packages

[arturcic]

if I can see it correctly it's on a different repository - https://aur.archlinux.org/gitversion.git/ and there you specify how to build that. Question, is it possible to have for example the github repo instead (https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion) and then we can add support for the scripts we need in order to be able to release new versions? Also I saw you're the author of the package, can we include the maintainers also there?

[fuero]

Here's an example of something similar: https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/maintaining-aur-packages-with-renovate/ That person keeps the packages they're managing in a Github Repo and selectively pushes updates to the AUR git repo via Github actions. If you want to do this, I'll happily sign over maintainership :-)

[arturcic]

To be honest I'd be happy to add support for that

[fuero]

Great - hit me up again once you're set up!

[arturcic]

Great - hit me up again once you're set up!

Deal

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