Add direct download button on the homepage

[maddhruv]

Just like how https://code.visualstudio.com/ has the download button right away on the homepage, based on the OS/Arch, VSCodium can add a similar button, rather than redirecting to the github releases page

[ghost]

I found this script, this could help... (from https://stackoverflow.com/a/11219680/19866794)

// This script sets OSName variable as follows:
// "Windows"    for all versions of Windows
// "MacOS"      for all versions of Macintosh OS
// "Linux"      for all versions of Linux
// "UNIX"       for all other UNIX flavors 
// "Unknown OS" indicates failure to detect the OS

var OSName="Unknown OS";
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win")!=-1) OSName="Windows";
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac")!=-1) OSName="MacOS";
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("X11")!=-1) OSName="UNIX";
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Linux")!=-1) OSName="Linux";

document.write('Your OS: '+OSName);

This should help.

License:
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[GitMensch]

Sadly this doesn't provide a solution as it cannot know what version is wanted: stable/insiders user/system and hat version is actually the one "up to date". If these are all known then it may be possible to pre-select "something reasonable".

[GitMensch]

I general it seems more important to provide something like https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads, it seems this let the user do the actual choosing of the items above (of course VSCodium provides much more than MS, but the amount could be added using a similar UI) then a JavaScript (in the case of MS a non-free one, but we could do better) uses this information to look up the URL (we have the versions repo) and trigger the download.
With the user-provided information this would for example query https://github.com/VSCodium/versions/blob/master/stable/win32/arm64/archive/latest.json .
Sounds doable. Any volunteer to write the necessary java script and HTML elements?

The "download button" referenced in the issue is then only a pre-selection for the user, something that could actually be done ith the same javascript (not acting on a click but on page load).

[Crystal-RainSlide]

I fixed and wrote some regular expressions for the filenames of VSCodium releases, when I was contributing for an open source software mirror backend. Can be helpful. Note that VSCodium-{version}-src.(tar.gz|zip) is not included.

https://github.com/tuna/mirror-web/blob/345d47184c9d9064ce8a08b554305b72ad9821e5/geninfo/genisolist.ini#L746

Output of all those regexs:

• darwin:

  • type: dmg zip
  • arch: arm64 x64

• linux:

  type	arch
  AppImage AppImage.zsync	x86_64
  deb	amd64 arm64 armhf
  rpm	aarch64 armv7hl x86_64
  tar.gz	arm64 armhf x64

• win32:

  • type: exe-Setup exe-UserSetup msi msi-updates-disabled zip
  • arch: arm64 ia32 x64

• Remote Extension Host:

  type	arch
  darwin	arm64 x64
  linux	arm64 armhf x64
  win32	ia32 x64

• After all:

  • x86: ia32
  • x64: amd64 x64 x86_64
  • armhf: armhf armv7hl
  • arm64: aarch64 arm64