Non-AppImage Linux releases

[MV10]

Proposal

Would you consider providing a separate tar.gz archive of non-self-contained Linux builds that can be extracted to a directory to run the app?

I'm a .NET dev so I have the SDK installed machine-wide, and for non-devs who prefer better control over their system, these days the runtimes are easily installed via standard package managers.

The AppImage release (a) wastes a lot of space if you already have the SDK or runtime, (b) leaves files all over the place in hidden / temp directories, (c) makes full portability impossible, and (d) users can't really uninstall the app unless they know about all these hidden / temp files.

I guess you could say my goal is full portability -- mount a location on any machine and as long as the runtime is present, the app "Just Works".

I understand AppImage is often easier for less-technical users. I'm requesting this in addition to AppImage releases, not in place of it.

[Slashic]

You can do this yourself with --appimage-extract or just renaming your appimage file with a .7z or .zip extension and extract it with a proper archive manager.

Not sure what's your goal there but that would defeat the purpose of Stability Matrix that is to "containerize" and therefore make portable the various SD UIs and avoid system dependencies hell especially for Python, in that case you're better off installing manually the UI you need.