Please publish binaries with releases

[08d2]

It would be helpful if published releases e.g. 0.6.5 included binaries for supported platforms, even if that's just linux/amd64 for now. I appreciate that you're publishing Docker images, but binaries are more widely usable.

[ealib]

The availability of precompiled Dendrite binaries would be particularly important for Windows users, of course.

[ealib]

For reference only, other projects written in Go that release pre-compiled binaries for various platforms supported by the toolchain:

• Caddy
• Gitea

Furthermore, for full integration in Windows, where background processes have to comply with certain rules in order to be compatible with the Service Control Manager, the easiest way seems to be to use the Minimal windows service stub.

[ealib]

I forgot that the very NATS publishes

• NATS server pre-built binaries
• NATS Windows Service

[kegsay]

We are not planning on supporting binaries with releases at this time. We already have docker images with different architectures. We are a very small team and are sadly unable to maintain a comprehensive release setup, as the cost of this would be too great as we'd need to ensure binaries don't have regressions in addition to the Docker releases which we actively use and test.

We may revisit this in the future.