Provide binaries for download

[probonopd]

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.

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

[sean-perkins]

Thanks @probonopd! I'll research the best way to provide the AppImage and update the next release (and this issue) when that is available.