Support for alternative release providers beyond GitHub?

[pirafrank]

The Idea

How about adding support for alternative release providers beyond GitHub?

Common are Codeberg, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut, and Bitbucket. We could broaden compatibility and decentralize reliance on GitHub, albeit it is the mostly adopted so far. This feature would allow the tool to fetch binaries or assets from various source hosting services, making it more flexible for self-hosted or privacy-conscious projects.

How to

Ideally, this support should be configurable via a manifest or URL pattern to specify in download or install command, or just ask the user right after the install user/repo from which provider we should download the asset. same for download command.

Providers

Likely to work like GitHub does:

• GitLab

These may work:

• Codeberg
• Gitea

These may not:

• Bitbucket
• SourceHut

Additional notes

We could also enable users to define custom endpoints, e.g. self-hosted gitlab, etc. Supporting multiple providers ensures better resilience, aligns with open-source decentralization goals, and accommodates a wider range of developer workflows.

[pirafrank]

Should we also support downloading and installing from a given URL providing required metadata (slug and version) manually?
This ofc should bypass the selection of right artifact (it’s up to the user to be correct!)