Automated Build

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I have set up GitHub Actions to get automated build.

The current setup:

• MSYS2 [MINGW64] win64 on windows-2022, latest qt6-base curl
• MacPorts macos-silicon on macos-15, latest qt6-qtbase curl
• MacPorts macos-intel on macos-15-intel, latest qt6-qtbase curl
• Miniconda [Miniforge3, conda-forge channel] linux, AppImage on ubuntu-24.04, latest qt6-main curl
• Ubuntu apt linux, AppImage, for cli build, on ubuntu-24.04

Under deprecation setup:

• MSYS2 [MINGW32] win32 on windows-2022, latest qt5-base curl

Need stable and recent versions of Qt 6, Qt 5 and libcurl, pre-distributed and trusted binaries.

Need to get the same versions of Qt and libcurl on all platforms.

I created scripts to automatically resolve and link dependencies, all the libraries that will be bundled with the software, e2se/deployqtwin and e2se/deployqtmacx.

The software distributed for Windows and macOS is not signed, nor distributed through the main distribution channels.

It might be interesting to distribute the software on other channels, example Chocolatey.

Bringing reliable developers into the team, with the ability to sign, could make possible to sign the software and build and test it on Arm64 architectures, for example: Silicon, linux-aarch64 AppImage, win-arm64.

There is a repo e2se/test-workflows to experimenting with build automation.

Ideas, suggestions would be appreciated