Easy way to run locally on Linux/Windows/OSX

[jonnor]

Currently one has to run imgflo as a server from commandline, register manually using imgflo-register, and manually open app.flowhub.io in browser. Which is not for everyone :)

Low priority for me, as delivering native solutions to multiple operating systems is tons of work. A proper solution would be to use Travis CI, or something that integrates with it, to continiously build and test a native app.

[nylnook]

I may be wrong, but we can probably provide an install script for easy installation of GEGL+BABL+lipsoup from source (OS dependant), and then use something like this :
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
to package an "application"

Need some more investigation ;p

[jonnor]

For Ubuntu, we could publish the binary we already build on Travis. Might help some people at least

[jonnor]

@nylnook: A "script" is not my definition of easy for this bug. We already have that, its called "Makefile". Downloadable, ready-to-run binaries for platform for every release is easy (automatically built).

[jonnor]

One could consider packaging into a self-contained "app" a separate issue

[jonnor]

We now build imgflo-dependencies and imgflo for OSX on Travis. Couple of tests failing on imgflo still thought, see https://travis-ci.org/imgflo/imgflo/jobs/137345887

[jonnor]

OSX support mainline in master now, and documented in README. Next steps would be to actually bundle up into an .app.