Provide AppImage for download

[probonopd]

Please provide the AppImage for download, preferably on the GitHub Releases page, thanks.

Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:

• Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
• One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
• No unpacking or installation necessary
• No root needed
• No system libraries changed
• Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
• Optional desktop integration with appimaged
• Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
• Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
• Works on Live ISOs
• Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

[stefanhusmann]

appimages are a misconcept. I never found single one that worked for me. Do not put your efforts into such a crap.

[probonopd]

Don't spread FUD. They are working beautifully unless you are on unsupportable, ever-changing, no-clear-baseline distibutions such as Arch. Show me what does not work for you and I may be able to help you.

There's even already signs of beginning AppImage support in this project:

le/Makefile.am

Line 23 in 18f6804

# AppImage building rules

[lavv17]

I have already added appimage target to the makefile. пн, 24 июля 2017, 0:00 probonopd <[email protected]>:

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[probonopd]

Thanks @lavv17 that is a good first step, next it would be great if you could provide the AppImage binary for download, preferably on the GitHub Releases page.