github.tarball_from releases

[Joshua Root]

On 15/2/2025 12:15, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev wrote:
> This project clearly provides a Github "Releases" page with tarballs 
> listed under each release.  What do you mean by "This project does not 
> provide release tarballs"?  You are probably right, but I need to better 
> under stand the mixed message here.  Thank you for your advice.

Yeah, it's a little confusing that you can create a GitHub release and 
not actually release anything on it. It's effectively a tag with a 
release notes document attached, as the source code links are exactly 
the same as the ones you would get if they had just created a tag.

I think you already got it, but a good example never hurts. Have a look 
at the Assets section on 
<https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-3.2.4>, and in 
particular the difference in the structure of the URLs for the 
"SDL3-3.2.4.tar.gz" and "Source code (tar.gz)" links.

- Josh