A pre-built binary `MKVToolNix.AppImage` would be nice to have
Created by: KurtPfeifle
Probably you've already heard of AppImageKit which provides the tools to transform binaries (after their building from sources) into AppImages which are capable to run over a large selection of Linux distributions:
- A user does not need to be root, and needs no package manager.
- She downloads the AppImage makes it executable and simply runs it (from CLI, via single or double-click, whatever she prefers).
As far as myself as a user is concerned, I would like to be able to use all the related binaries of MKVtoolNix from one and the same AppImage.
This is possible -- however it requires to write a custom AppRun. That could be a Bash script even (or written in any other scripting language which you can assume an interpreter for on the target Linux platform where the AppImage should run), or a pre-compiled binary (which somebody would have to custom-write for MKVtoolNix). So a Bash script would probably be the moste easy way to go at the beginning, when you explore that road.
Question: Would you accept a pull request for building such a thing automatically via Travis CI for each release (or even for each Git commit, if you want) and publishes it along with your source tarballs on your release page?
If yes, the AppImageKit team would help you to get it going, at least until you can do most of what you want to get from it: starting GUI as well as command line tools through this single AppImage. (Until you can do all you want, you'd probably have to put in more effort -- depending on the scope of "all".)