Publishing libraries with GoReleaser

What if I told you you can now automate the release of your libraries as well?

I think some of you are used to just run goreleaser and have your binaries compiled, archived, packaged and published… but the experience was not that great regarding libraries.

Thanks to @leogr, on v0.131.0 we shipped the ability to skip builds entirely, which means you can now release libraries!

The usage is pretty simple, just create a config setting build.skip: true and you’re good to go:

before:
  hooks:
    - go mod tidy
builds:
- skip: true
changelog:
  sort: asc
  filters:
    exclude:
    - '^docs:'
    - '^test:'

Of course, a lot of pipes won’t work, since they depend on the produced binaries. But it will generate a release, which is already better than doing it manually. 😌

Hope it helps!