Consider removing version number from build assets

[gcormier]

In order to automate downloading of a specific platform build asset, it would be easier if the assets did not contain the build number. This would allow referencing the repository using the latest feature in GitHub.

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/linking-to-releases

To link directly to a download of your latest release asset that was manually uploaded, link to /owner/name/releases/latest/download/asset-name.zip.

[ashemedai]

I hope I am understanding what you are asking correctly here. If you are advocating to change the asset names from e.g. gcm-osx-arm64-2.0.785.pkg to gcm-osx-arm64.pkg for every release, I can tell you this will make a lot of OS package managers very angry.

[ldennington]

As a heads up, we don't plan to remove the version numbers from our releases (for multiple reasons, including the one @ashemedai calls out above). However, we are working internally on a solution that will allow you to automatically download the latest release without having to remove those numbers. We will post updates here as we have them.

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