Script to download Continuous Build AppImages

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 89a07a1..931586d 100644 (file)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ The project website is <https://www.geeqie.org/> and you will find the latest so
 
 * [Features](#features)
 * [Downloading](#downloading)
+* [AppImages](#appimages)
+* [Installation Scripts](#installation-scripts)
 * [Compiling and Installing](#compiling-and-installing)
 * [Notes and changes for the latest release](#notes-and-changes-for-the-latest-release)
 * [Requirements](#requirements)
@@ -112,7 +114,22 @@ Geeqie is available:
 
 * via WSL2 on Windows 11 - see notes below.
 
-However Geeqie is stable and you may compile the latest version from sources.
+### AppImages
+
+The Continuous Build release version has AppImages that are automatically generated each time the source code is updated. There are two versions - the full version is about 120MB and the minimal version is about 10MB and will therefore load much faster.
+
+The minimal version can display jpegs, pngs and some other formats, but does not have the range of the full version.
+
+This script file will download the latest Continuous Build AppImages for you:
+
+```sh
+wget https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/blob/master/scripts/geeqie-download-appimage.sh
+chmod +x geeqie-download-appimage.sh
+```
+
+### Installation scripts
+
+Geeqie is stable and you may compile the latest version from sources.
 
 There are two scripts which will download and compile the sources for you.
 

diff --git a/scripts/geeqie-download-appimage.sh b/scripts/geeqie-download-appimage.sh
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..c7bab7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/geeqie-download-appimage.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#**********************************************************************
+# Copyright (C) 2023 - The Geeqie Team
+#
+# Author: Colin Clark
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+#**********************************************************************
+
+## @file
+## @brief Download full and minimal AppImages from the Continuous build release on GitHub.
+##
+## The user should modify the symbolic links as appropriate.
+##
+## Downloads will not be made unless the server version is newer than the local file.
+##
+
+cd "$HOME/bin/" || exit
+architecture=$(arch)
+
+wget --quiet --show-progress --backups=3 --timestamping "https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/releases/download/continuous/Geeqie-latest-$architecture.AppImage";
+chmod +x "Geeqie-latest-$architecture.AppImage"
+ln --symbolic --force "Geeqie-latest-$architecture.AppImage" Geeqie
+
+wget --quiet --show-progress --backups=3 --timestamping "https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/releases/download/continuous/Geeqie-minimal-latest-$architecture.AppImage";
+chmod +x "Geeqie-minimal-latest-$architecture.AppImage"
+ln --symbolic --force "Geeqie-minimal-latest-$architecture.AppImage" geeqie

diff --git a/scripts/meson.build b/scripts/meson.build
index acac18e..0e9ac89 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/meson.build
+++ b/scripts/meson.build
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ script_sources += files('authors.sh',
 'devel-install.sh',
 'doxygen-help.sh',
 'doxygen.sh',
+'geeqie-download-appimage.sh',
 'generate-ClayRGB1998-icc-h.sh',
 'generate-appimage.sh',
 'generate-linuxdeploy-for-arm.sh',