Discuss release distributions

[lagergren]

This is meant as an Umbrella cr for the best way to handle distributions.

JReleaser and semantic versioning have come up. Thoughts? Description of the Current distro?

[aalmiray]

As far as I recall the current distribution is not identical for all supported platforms, there's a config script that generates symlinks to the same "binary" but with different names.

Ideally, a binary distribution would follow this structure https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/concepts/distributions/binary.html which is what's expected by multiple package managers https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/integrations.html#_package_publish

This structure could be created on the fly upon installation as long as the target package manager supports that feature. Otherwise, the file structure should be provided OOTB (which is my recommendation as that simplifies matters).