up to 2.9.2 the release tags included a 'dist' directory with the built package, ready for consumption

since 3.0.0 there is no 'dist' directory anymore, is this by design or accident?

self building would be very hard for us (proxmox) since on debian (which we use as base) neither npm nor gulp is packaged, and it would mean we would rely on non-debian repos for this (or a not very nice build-workflow)

edit:

afaics, the dist/ is in the .gitignore (from the v3 branch) with a comment that this can be removed when merging v3 into master, but this did not happen, so i hope this was just a mistake