Please provide AppImage for Linux on GitHub Releases

[probonopd]

tomatoad/src/package.json

Line 49 in 179f460

"AppImage",

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

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

If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.

[dracan]

Thanks @probonopd! I certainly plan on looking into incorporating builds for both Mac and Linux once it's nearer a 1.0 status. Thanks for the AppImage suggestion - I'll read up on that when I come to doing this. My knowledge of Mac / Linux distribution is next to none at the moment - so this looks ideal!