Request for feedback: Chicken as a self-contained AppImage

[Daniel Ziltener]

Hello Chickeners!

I had a "why not?" idea recently. I'm maintaining the RPM packages for 
Chicken, and I thought "why not pack Chicken into an AppImage?" - and 
that's what I did!

For those who don't know AppImages: they are single-file volumes (think 
ISO or DMG) but executable, and they work, without any further 
requirements apart from FUSE (to mount the embedded SquashFS), on every 
Linux distribution. You download an AppImage, rename it if you want, 
make it executable, and it's ready for use. (if you have AppImageUpdate 
installed, you can even automatically check for and get updates).

So in this case, I packed a little script into the AppImage, since 
Chicken has a whole bunch of executables. The AppImage is being built on 
OpenSUSE's OBS service, and a download page is on 
https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1911578/ , where you'll also find further 
description on how to use it.

Try it out if you like, and let me know about your thoughts, bugs to 
fix, or improvements to make. A bit later I will link it on the 
installation page of the Chicken wiki.

Best regards,
Daniel