This PR, when merged, will compile this application on Travis CI upon each git push, and upload an AppImage to your GitHub Releases page.
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
Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.
PLEASE NOTE: For this to work, you need to enable Travis CI for your repository as described hereprior to merging this, if you haven't already done so. Also, You need to set up GITHUB_TOKEN in Travis CI for this to work; please see https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool.
If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.
This PR, when merged, will compile this application on Travis CI upon each
git push
, and upload an AppImage to your GitHub Releases page.Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:
appimaged
--appimage-extract
parameterHere is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.
PLEASE NOTE: For this to work, you need to enable Travis CI for your repository as described here prior to merging this, if you haven't already done so. Also, You need to set up
GITHUB_TOKEN
in Travis CI for this to work; please see https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool.If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.