Github Actions to create release artifacts

[pesse]

At the moment, there is no Github Actions workflow to create release artifacts.

What it should include:

• update utplsql-cli.version
• mvn package verify jar:jar appassembler:assemble
• make sure jar is copied to assembly/lib
• Creating .zip and .zip.md5 files of assembly

Any help really appreciated.

[jgebal]

I'll be happy to look into that

[simasch]

@pesse and @jgebal
Have you had a look at how I do that in https://github.com/utPLSQL/utPLSQL-maven-plugin

I even deploy to Maven Central.

[simasch]

1. Step: use GitHub Packages
2. Step: use JReleaser to deploy to various platforms (GitHub Packages, sdkman etc)

[aalmiray]

Hello! FWIW you can use Maven's appassembler and assembly plugins to create binary distributions. The 1st plugin creates the layout with a launchable script plus all dependencies while the second creates a zip file. Once you have a binary distribution releasing with JReleaser is pretty much straight forward, as shown at

https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/quick-start/maven.html
https://github.com/aalmiray/app/

Be aware that releasing to GitHub Packages still requires consumers to input their GitHub credentials for reading.

[simasch]

Thanks @aalmiray
We already use these two plugins plus a checksum plugin to add the files to the release in Github.
We will not use Github Packages.