ffs I can't test the windows exe because github makes actions' artifacts require login, which I can't easily do in my VM. That's stupid, anyway. I want everything to be publicly accessible (unless it's an gpg key using for signing releases or something)

Let's see if I can make artifacts automatically trigger releases as that seems to be the only way to make actions' artifacts public

Author: maltfield

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -23,9 +23,35 @@ jobs:
 
     - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
       with:
-        name: Linux AppImage (x86_64)
+        name: helloWorld-linux-x86_64
         path: dist/
 
+    - name: Create dist tarball
+      run: 'tar -czvf helloWorld-linux-x86_64.`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`.tar.bz2 dist/*'
+      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Create Release
+      id: create_release
+      uses: actions/create-release@v1
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      with:
+        tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
+        release_name: Public Build Artifact ${{ github.ref }}
+        draft: false
+        prerelease: true
+
+    - name: Upload Release Asset
+      id: upload-release-asset 
+      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
+      env:
+        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      with:
+        upload_url: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.upload_url }} # This pulls from the CREATE RELEASE step above, referencing it's ID to get its outputs object, which include a `upload_url`. See this blog post for more info: https://jasonet.co/posts/new-features-of-github-actions/#passing-data-to-future-steps 
+        #asset_path: dist
+        asset_name: helloWorld-linux*.tar.bz2
+        asset_content_type: application/x-bzip2
+
 #  windows:
 #    runs-on: windows-latest
 #