Add GitHub Actions workflow for creating release artifacts and update…

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… .gitignore to include additional files

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

A workflow is added to automatically build and upload Python distribution artifacts on version tag pushes, alongside updating .gitignore to filter out generated files.

• Introduces a new release.yml that checks out code, sets up Python, installs build tools, generates artifacts, and uploads them.
• Updates .gitignore to exclude distribution outputs and related files.

Reviewed Changes

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File	Description
.github/workflows/release.yml	New GitHub Actions workflow to create and upload release artifacts on tag pushes
.gitignore	Updated to ignore additional generated files

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR adds a new GitHub Actions workflow to automatically build and upload Python distribution artifacts on tag pushes or manual dispatch.

• Introduces .github/workflows/release.yml to trigger on push tags (v*) and workflow_dispatch, set up Python 3.11, build sdist and wheel, then upload them as artifacts.

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.github/workflows/release.yml:28

• The build step invokes python -m build but the build package isn't installed. Add pip install build (or include it alongside setuptools and wheel) to ensure the build command succeeds.

pip install setuptools wheel

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR introduces a new GitHub Actions workflow that builds distribution artifacts and uploads them when a tagged commit is pushed.

• Adds a workflow to trigger on push tags following the pattern 'v*'.
• Implements steps to checkout code, set up Python, cache dependencies, build distributions, and upload artifacts.