Appropriate asset names in releases

[Chaitanyabsprip]

I am trying to inculcate the installation of gitmux in my dotfiles setup script. The names of the assets currently include the version of the asset as well. This makes it difficult to reliably download the latest binary.

[arl]

Hi.

This is a duplicate of #74

[arl]

Even if asset file names didn't have the version number, you'd still need the release number for the download URL.

example: https://github.com/arl/gitmux/releases/download/v0.11.2/gitmux_v0.11.2_linux_386.tar.gz

I think you could script a call to the GitHub API to obtain the latest version tag or the latest release

[Chaitanyabsprip]

yes, that is how I'm currently handling it
my install-gitmux script

[arl]

Thanks for sharing.
This could be useful for other users.

If we had such a script in gitmux repository (i.e so at a fixed url) and if that script was accepting as parameters:

• version tag (with latest meaning "the latest released version")
• target os
• target arch

Then that script could be used for those of you who wants to automate gitmux installation.

That script would still need to be updated (either manually or automatically) on git tags push (to let it know what's the new latest.

By doing so, that script wouldn't require any dependencies other than wget/curl to download the release.

That's a bit of work, not a lot, but I haven't got that time at the moment.

Accepting contributions!

[Chaitanyabsprip]

I will make a PR