Create a release

[omallo]

I wanted to ask whether it would be possible to create a GitHub release for this project with some precompiled binaries (at least for Linux i386/x64)?

This would make it easier to consume the (really nice :-)) tool e.g. from Docker images without having to compile it.

[todinov]

+1 for this. It will really be useful for the same reason (Docker)

[catvec]

I recently made a Makefile for my own Go project that cross compiles 32 (386) & 64-bit(amd64) for Linux, OSX (darwin), and Windows.

Here is the README section about how to use it.

Someone could snag that and modify it for this project (Find & replace kubeci for gotpl). I assume that the MIT license, which the project the Makefile is from uses, is compatible with the Apache license this project has. I'm not really sure about much of that area.

[mfriedenhagen]

Late to the game but now there are multi-stage docker files, see https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-build/#name-your-build-stages
So something like this should be sufficient:

FROM golang:latest AS builder
RUN go get github.com/tsg/gotpl

FROM alpine:latest  
COPY --from=builder /go/bin/gotpl /usr/local/bin

[mcandre]

Please do this, and upload precompiled binaries for non-Go users, so that everyone can enjoy this wonderful tool!

For example, goxcart can quickly build a directory tree of binaries for many different platforms. Then TGZ or ZIP, drag and drop onto the GitHub release editing page.