[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Feature request: Please provide an AppImage for Geany (#1303)

[Brenton Horne]

Hi,

At the moment Linux users are essentially left to wait until their respective distribution's repositories are updated and the new release of Geany is added. This process is so tedious, however, that for most non-bleeding edge distributions one has to wait months or years for this to happen (by which time usually an even newer release of Geany is out). So what I propose is that you's provide your own AppImages for Geany. AppImages, for those of you that are unaware, are a type of cross-distribution packaging format that need no special tools (like no special package manager to manage the packages) in order to be run. They merely need to be marked executable (with `chmod +x`) and run (with `./<AppImage>` where `<AppImage>` is the AppImage's filename, including its file extension). They are essentially self-mounting image files with an internal file system that contains all the files required to run the program they provide (which in this case would be Geany, of course). 

I have created my own AppImage for Geany (which you can find [here](https://bintray.com/fusion809/AppImages/Geany#files)) but as you might notice it is presently out of date (version 1.28, versus the latest release of 1.29) as the Debian packages (and no this does not mean that this AppImage will only run on Debian systems, it will run on Arch Linux, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, etc. as well) I built it from are presently out-of-date (although no doubt they will be updated soon). Plus my AppImage is built using Debian (Jessie) ingredients so it doesn't work on systems older than Jessie, while it is possible that you's could create a more flexible AppImage. You's could use your Travis CI artefacts instead of the Debian packages I use to build the AppImage, hence providing the very latest (more up-to-date than I could ever hope to provide) build of Geany. The way I uploaded my Geany AppImage to Bintray is using Travis CI, so they both easily integrated with one another. Alternatively you could upload the AppImages to the releases page of this GitHub repository. 

If you need help with this I am more than willing to help, although I do believe @probonopd will be far more helpful than I, due to his superior knowledge of AppImages (after all he is the one that created the format). 

Thanks for your time,
Brenton

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