Linux port about rgat

[probonopd]

Please let me know once rgat is Linux savvy, then we could make an [AppImage] together.

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.

[ncatlin]

Thanks for this! I find distributing things so they work on other peoples computers to be the second most frustrating thing about development (second only to making code compilable by other people) so if Appimage lets me do this then that would be great.

I think I'm going to start working on Linux support next - the changing syscalls with each Windows update keeps breaking Pin/DynamoRIO so doing the main capability development on Linux makes a lot of sense.

[probonopd]

Yes, AppImage was made to make it easier for application authors to distribute applications to Linux users on a variety of distributions. There is still some testing and fiddling involved realistically, but it shouldn't be too bad.