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taspeotis on May 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: GIMP-Win project wasn’t hijacked, just abandoned

> github used to allow binary distribution but not anymore

Sorry I must be missing something, what's wrong with "Upload a release asset" [1].

[1] https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#upload-a-rel...

djpowell on May 28, 2015 [–]

Github used to have a simple binary files service, this was removed with no replacement, and then the release asset system was added shortly after.

I only recently found out release assets.

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