Provide binaries for download
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probonopd commented
Please provide official binaries for download on the project's GitHub Releases page, particularly an AppImage for Linux.
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
Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.
electron-builder has built-in support for AppImage (in fact, it is already configured in this project's package.json
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If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.