ship appimage binary for linux

[prabirshrestha]

Currently wezterm ships .deb and .rpm but I use archlinux which uses its own package manager pacman. Would it be possible to only ship appimage so it works on multiple linux distros easily. Both vim and neovim ships appimage and makes it very easy to get started.

Another option would be to also create a create so all if I have a cargo setup all I can do is cargo install wezterm.

[wez]

FWIW, we also ship a binary tarball (eg: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/releases/download/20200113-222147-724ad3a/wezterm-20200113-222147-724ad3a.tar.xz) that you can probably extract and run on most linux systems.

I'm not sure about targeting appimage exclusively, but since it is pretty easy to make an appimage, I don't mind adding it to the set of downloads. I have a PR open to test the CI/packaging adjustments to accomodate appimage building.

[wez]

An AppImage should show up in the next nightly release run; take a look in https://github.com/wez/wezterm/releases/tag/nightly in about an hour or so

[wez]

Please let me know whether the AppImage works for you!

[prabirshrestha]

Works. Thanks.

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