dleidert

I've recently found a way to test build a NSIS-based installer project on a Windows host on https://travis-ci.org. I had to figure out quite a bit how to run the makensis command there and how to set the PATH environment variable. But now that it works, let me share my configuration file .travis.yml with you:

language: shell
sudo: false

notifications:
  email:
    on_success: never

dleidert

Add the download URL for an asset of your latest release to your Jekyll site on GitHub pages

Often there is the question to get the download URL for an asset (e.g. a setup-file) of the latest release of a project. In my case I provide an executable, which includes the version number in its name, like this:

project-X.Y.Z-setup.exe

together with the source as ZIP- and Tarball-archive. Now to get the download URLs of the assets and source archives using the GitHub API one can get and process this URL (replacing USER and PROJECT with the GitHub user account and projectname accordingly):

dleidert

I usually host a projects GitHub pages (docs/) and build service configration files (e.g. .travis.yml or .appveyor.yml) together with the projects source in the master branch. When creating a release, github creates a zip and a tar archive (the so called zipball and tarball), which can also be created these links:

https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:project/tarball
https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:project/zipball

or for a specific release: