Provide .exe and .tar releases

[MarkTiedemann]

ref: denoland/deno_install#130

As witnessed in #5727 and #129, people may not expect Deno to just be an .exe in a .zip.

ref: denoland/deno_install#153

tar is installed by default on Windows 10 since early 2018. unzip is not installed by default. Instead, unzipping requires using PowerShell cmdlets or Windows Script Host shenanigans. Providing a .tar.gz release would allow custom installations to just curl and untar a Deno release. (Extracting .tar.xz doesn't work on Windows. Only .tar.gz is supported.)

Not sure about Mac and Linux, but I'd guess that tar is more common on those platforms than zip.

Note that I'm not saying that we should get rid of .zip releases. I'm suggesting to provide binary and .tar releases in addition to the .zip releases.

[jsejcksn]

This is a very reasonable request. The source code is already being released in zip and tar.gz formats.

I also like that you gave a 👍 to your own post 😄 .

[MarkTiedemann]

Just learned that tar on Windows supports extracting .zip files out of the box.

C:\dev>curl -LO https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/download/v1.1.2/deno-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
C:\dev>tar xf deno-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
C:\dev>.\deno -V
deno 1.1.2

This removes the paint point of unzip not being available.

[jsejcksn]

Ref: How are zlib, gzip and zip related? What do they have in common and how are they different?