add: dist workflow

[VasilyStepanov]

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request refines the project's distribution workflow by adjusting the build configuration. It streamlines the compilation process by excluding examples and ensures that the README.md file is correctly prepared for distribution, while its generated version is kept out of version control.

Highlights

• Distribution Workflow: A new distribution workflow has been implemented, configuring Makefile.am to properly handle README generation from README.md and ensure its inclusion in distribution archives.
• Build Process Simplification: The examples directory has been removed from the SUBDIRS in Makefile.am, which simplifies the main build and distribution process.
• Git Ignore Update: The .gitignore file has been updated to include /README, preventing the generated README file from being tracked by Git.

Ignored Files

• Ignored by pattern: .github/workflows/** (1)
  • .github/workflows/dist.yml

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Code Review

This pull request aims to add a distribution workflow by updating the autotools configuration. The changes in Makefile.am introduce rules to generate a plain text README from README.md for the distribution. While the intent is good, the current implementation has issues with out-of-tree builds and doesn't correctly include the generated README in the distribution package. I've suggested a more idiomatic automake approach using dist-hook to address this.

[gmelikov]

LGTM, thank you!