Publish/release standalone binaries for protoc-gen-dart

[bshi]

Some tooling (e.g. bazel) would benefit from official standalone binaries for the protoc plugin. Would the project be open to building & hosting these kinds of artifacts? A github action centric approach (PoC cbracken/rules_dart#59 (comment)) might be a good MVP viable for most use-cases.

[loeffel-io]

+1

[gattytto]

hello this subject is very interesting, googleapis repo uses their own generators, usually each made in the language it generates, they use some magic to avoid "binaries" using http_archive references into repositories with a structure that builds(works in linux/mac) them within the pipeline, and then the repository_rules file has the different tags the buildfile_generator will use to create a centralized buildfile.bazel with all the targets for the diff languages, I think if you could make the protoc-generator plugin as a separate github repo and replicate python or other generators repositories.bzl,BUILD.bazel,rules_dart/BUILD.bazel...

It would be awesome if we could have dart added to the list
as other users mentioned in other issues, the task surpasses my skillset widely ftm

[loeffel-io]

Please provide those binaries 🙏 would help a lot