Can create an AppImage with make-appimage.

appimage/make-appimage

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Andrew Hamilton. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the Artistic License 2.0.
+
+
+set -e
+
+
+VIGIL_PATH=$(realpath $(dirname $0)/..)
+export VIGIL_PATH
+
+
+function get_patched_recipe {
+    wget -c "https://github.com/AppImage/AppImages/raw/94d39b68d8d7ab56f31fde6f59bc8d2813d13599/recipes/meta/Recipe"
+    cp Recipe Recipe-patched
+    sed -i -e 's|delete_blacklisted|# delete_blacklisted|g' Recipe-patched
+    chmod +x Recipe-patched
+}
+
+
+[ $# -eq 0 ] && WORK_PATH=$(mktemp -d --suffix=-appimage) || WORK_PATH="$1"
+cd "$WORK_PATH"
+$VIGIL_PATH/appimage/make-appimage-yml.py > vigil.yml
+get_patched_recipe
+./Recipe-patched --no-di vigil.yml
+mv out/Vigil* .
+echo
+echo "AppImage path: $(realpath Vigil*)"

appimage/make-appimage-yml.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Andrew Hamilton. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the Artistic License 2.0.
+
+
+import vigil.tools as tools
+
+
+dist_deps = set()
+for dependency in tools.dependencies("ubuntu"):
+    if "/" in dependency:
+        raise ValueError
+    else:
+        dist_deps.add(dependency)
+dist_deps.update({"python3-pygments", "python3-pyinotify", "python3-docopt",
+                  "util-linux", "python3-pil", "python3-pip",
+                  "python3-setuptools"})
+dep_list = "\n    - ".join(sorted(dist_deps))
+print("""app: vigil-code-monitor
+
+ingredients:
+  packages:
+    - %s
+  dist: zesty
+  sources:
+    - deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ zesty main universe
+
+script:
+  - ./usr/bin/python3 -m pip install $VIGIL_PATH
+  - cp $VIGIL_PATH/appimage/vigil-icon.png .
+  - cp -a $VIGIL_PATH/tests .
+  - cp $VIGIL_PATH/test-all tests
+  - cat > vigil.desktop <<\EOF
+  - [Desktop Entry]
+  - Type=Application
+  - Name=Vigil Code Monitor
+  - Comment=Vigil maintains an up-to-date set of reports for every file in a codebase.
+  - Exec=./bin/python3 -m vigil
+  - Terminal=true
+  - Icon=vigil-icon.png
+  - Categories=Application;
+  - EOF
+""" % dep_list)