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

[elextr]

Basically the Geany team does not have the effort available to support distribution, be it appimage, or flatpack, or snap.  If somebody wants to make such distributions elsewhere, fine, but as @eht16 said the Geany team do _not_ accept the extra workload.

> The AppImage team provides tools for upstream packaging, so that the original authors of applications can provide binaries with end-to-end control over the all aspects of the distribution.

To be clear, the original authors do not want to have end to end control of the distribution, distribution is not our thing, Geany is a volunteer project where contributors work on what they want to, and so far most contributors have indicated no interest whatsoever in distribution.  So including any distribution support in the main Geany repository is not desired.  The only distribution in the Geany repo is windows, for historical reasons, and because it also requires source changes to support windows (see all the `#ifdef`s).  Even the OSX build is outside the main repository.

What I personally think might possibly be done (don't know what others think) is to provide another repository under the Geany organisation where someone who wants to support appimages can make them, similar to the way OSX is handled.  But somebody has to offer to continue to support releasing them.

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