Add support for building releases with GitHub Actions #2189
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This change, starting with the master/dev builds, shifts to crafting our release builds with GitHub Actions as an alternative to our aging Buildbot infrastructure. Additionally, this offers increased transparency of how the binaries are generated.
Some scattered notes:
Our scheduled scripts that manage the download data on the SourceMod downloads page would be able to be updated to optionally download the releases locally, and to either point at the local versions as we do now, or to point to them on GitHub. We can use a similar process to fetch the PDBs and add to our symbol server.
The full workflow currently takes 30-40 minutes to run. There is room for improvement there, but any significant improvement would likely require a significant rework.
If this goes well, looking at SM 1.11, MM:S, and AMXX builds are on the table.