Add binary distribution to github's download link

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simendsjo picture simendsjo · Aug 8, 2011 · Viewed 16.7k times · Source

Github has this download link on the repositories. How can I add binary distributions to this list?

I cannot find any info on help.github, so a link to some documentation would be helpful.

Answer

Konstantin Tarkus picture Konstantin Tarkus · Dec 15, 2012

On Dec 11, 2012 "Upload Releases" functionality aka "Downloads" was deprecated.

https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads

Update: On July 2, 2013 GitHub team announced a new "Releases" feature as a replacement for "Downloads"

https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software

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