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Binaries for Linux #20

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probonopd opened this issue Jun 29, 2020 · 1 comment
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Binaries for Linux #20

probonopd opened this issue Jun 29, 2020 · 1 comment

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@probonopd
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probonopd commented Jun 29, 2020

Would you be interested in offering binaries for Linux in AppImage fomat?

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
  • Can be listed in the AppImageHub central directory of available AppImages
  • Can double as a self-extracting compressed archive with the --appimage-extract parameter
  • No repositories needed. Suitable/optimized for air-gapped (offline) machines
  • Decentralized
@azonenberg
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We have no plans to do binary builds of any kind until the 1.0 release, which is probably still a fair distance out.

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