AppImage for linux

[Andrea Fontana]

On Friday, 20 October 2017 at 11:28:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-10-20 09:58, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> Did anyone tried to pack dmd as appimage? Is it even feasible?
>> 
>> It would be a easy way to:
>> - Run dmd without installation (and root permissions)
>> - Use multiple dmd versions
>
> DVM [1] doesn't require root permission, allows multiple dmd 
> version and it's cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows). But it 
> requires to install DMD and DVM itself.
>
> [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm

Here [1] it is explain how an appImage can be created from a PPA 
or from a TravisCI build.

It seems that we just need to write a short script to get it 
works.

[1] 
https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Creating-AppImages