Sharing binaries in GitHub releases

The purpose of an open source project is not only to make the source code of a project visible, but also to share it with public users. For each new version of the project (called a release), this share contains a release note, as well as the binary resulting from the compilation of the project.

Thus, for a user who wishes to use this application, they don't need to retrieve the entire source code and compile it – they just have to retrieve the shared binary from the desired release and use it directly.

Note that a release is linked to a Git tag, which is used to position a label at a specific point in the source code's history. A tag is often used to provide a version number to the source code; for example, the tag could be v1.0.1.

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To learn more about tag handling in Git, read the following documentation: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging.

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