README for Lrfg

lrfg is a Latest Release Files Generator script for use in conjunction with GitHub. It's a proof-of-concept implementation of a solution to the problem of how to provide a link directly to a release asset in a repository's latest release in the case where releases are tagged with version numbers.

As implemented, lrfg uses GitHub's REST API where needed to do the following:

1. Download info about the latest release of a specified repository belonging to a specified user.
2. Download the zip file from the latest release of the repository, renaming it <repo>-release.zip in the process, which removes the version number in the filename.
3. Unzip and modify the content of the zip file as desired.
4. Zip and tar the modified content to create new release files.
5. Upload the new release files to the latest release, resulting in two new assets: <repo>-release.zip and <repo>-release.tar.gz

See Notes in the comments of file lrfg regarding adjustments and token required for use.

In use over several releases, each release will have release files with the same filenames. As a consequence, the latest release zip file, for example, may be downloaded directly using the link: https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/releases/latest/download/<repo>-release.zip