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

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

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

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