Compress releases with tar.xz and tar.gz

[coolaj86]

Just about all the Linuxes (and the macOS GUI) support tar.xz out-of-the-box.

Windows 10 and Windows 11 (and the remaining Linuxes, BSDs, and macOSes) support tar.gz out-of-the-box (though I'm not sure about .gz).

Would you consider compressing these releases?

[mfridman]

Not opposed to it, although it might be a breaking change for some users who are manually downloading the archives as raw binaries.

Ideally, they'd be using the install script https://github.com/pressly/goose/blob/master/install.sh

I presume we could lean on goreleaser to handle compression, https://goreleaser.com/customization/archive/

Or were you thinking something else?

[coolaj86]

Yes, you can have multiple archives with goreleaser, so no need to break anything.

I'm curious if there's a way to configure it to use opt-style archives with the binary already in a bin folder.

I may be adding this to https://webinstall.dev. I want something to recommend for SQL migrations that works well for Node, Go, Rust and Zig projects.

[mfridman]

If you give me the exact layout you're looking for (or point at an existing thing), I could put something together or you can submit a PR (I'm easy). If folks prefer archives I'm all for it, ideally, we pick the most common one.

I know @caarlos0 has put a lot of effort into the GoReleaser project so I wouldn't be surprised if things just work with a few config options.

[caarlos0]

yes, you can have multiple archives in the archive section, with different names/formats/etc :)