feat(installer): unversioned alias on stable/beta tag releases

Adds bambuddy-windows-x64-setup.exe (unversioned) alongside the
  date-stamped bambuddy-<version>-windows-x64-setup.exe for stable
  and beta tag releases. Lets external surfaces (website, wiki,
  newsletters) link to a stable URL that survives version bumps:

    https://github.com/maziggy/bambuddy/releases/latest/download/
      bambuddy-windows-x64-setup.exe

  Daily prereleases are excluded — GitHub's `latest` redirect skips
  prereleases so the alias would add no value there, and an
  unversioned name next to a date-stamped versioned one on a daily
  release page is semantically confusing.
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maziggy
2026-06-10 13:41:00 +02:00
parent 1b8c0b2601
commit 7bb11df268
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@@ -57,6 +57,29 @@ jobs:
& "C:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 6\ISCC.exe" bambuddy.iss
shell: pwsh
# Stable + beta tag releases (e.g. v0.2.5b1, v0.3.0) get an unversioned
# copy alongside the versioned filename so external surfaces (website,
# wiki, newsletters) can link to a stable URL that survives version
# bumps:
#
# https://github.com/maziggy/bambuddy/releases/latest/download/bambuddy-windows-x64-setup.exe
#
# GitHub's `latest` redirect excludes prereleases, so this URL always
# points at whatever was released as a full release. Daily prereleases
# are excluded from the alias because (a) the unversioned name would be
# semantically confusing next to the date-stamped versioned name on a
# daily prerelease page, and (b) there's no stable "latest daily" URL
# anyway (`latest` skips prereleases), so the alias adds no value there.
- name: Create unversioned alias (non-daily tags only)
if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') && !contains(github.ref, '-daily.')
shell: pwsh
working-directory: installers/windows/build/output
run: |
$versioned = Get-ChildItem -Filter "bambuddy-*-windows-x64-setup.exe" | Select-Object -First 1
if (-not $versioned) { throw "no versioned installer .exe found" }
Copy-Item $versioned.FullName "bambuddy-windows-x64-setup.exe"
Write-Host "alias: bambuddy-windows-x64-setup.exe -> $($versioned.Name)"
- name: Upload installer artifact
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with: