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Azure VHD utilities.
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Provide binary releases #26

Open ahmetb opened 8 years ago

ahmetb commented 8 years ago

you can let travis-ci build this project and upload a binary to the releases tab.

this way people won't need to install go, check out the source code and build the project to use it.

Here's an example: https://github.com/Azure/azurefile-dockervolumedriver/blob/af5fe5a7751d964a5803e35a094c18bce6ac5e8c/.travis.yml#L14-L21

ahmetb commented 8 years ago

@anuchandy this project is very cool and I'm hearing more and more people relying on it. I suggest productizing this a little bit more so that people don't have to compile it themselves.

You can use travis-ci to automatically build and upload binaries to the Releases tab so that README would just tell people to where to download it.

anuchandy commented 8 years ago

@ahmetalpbalkan sorry for delay. Yes I want to do this, kind of busy with my main project for last few months. I am thinking of doing travis build in this weekends.

ahmetb commented 8 years ago

@anuchandy ping hehe

anuchandy commented 8 years ago

@ahmetalpbalkan apparently it appears that I don't have admin privilege on this repo, I can't see the "Settings" tab. @selvasingh will you be able to help here [by providing me admin access for this repo?] so that I can setup travis build.

ahmetb commented 8 years ago

@anuchandy any plans to do this?

also I suggest you to vendor the SDK code and not force users to do go get ./...