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E.g., with this Mono application that is available for Linux:
https://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler

Hi, thanks for this interesting project, looks very promising. Please be aware that the name is "AppImageKit" for the project and appimagetool for one of the tools contained therein. Currently you write "AppImageToolkit" in the README.md and on the GitHub Releases page; such a thing does not exist.

Keep up the good work; looking forward to a "hello world" example and eventually to an example that shows how to bundle MonoDevelop as an AppImage.

Some people might want to use the tool, but don't want to install all the requirements (.NET Core SDK, FUSE for appimagetool). Docker containers are perfect for that - they contain all dependencies and after usage they can be thrown away.

Usage would be something like this (on a machine with only git and Docker installed):

1. git clone https://github.com/phil-harmoniq/aspnet-src
2. docker run --rm -v ${PWD}/aspnet-src:/root/src -v ${PWD}/aspnet-out:/root/out phil-harmoniq/netpkg-tool netpkg-tool /root/src /root/out -n aspnet-pkg
3. ./aspnet-out/aspnet-pkg

The Docker image should probably be based on the official microsoft/dotnet Docker image (tag 2.0-sdk), but normal appimagetool usage depends on FUSE, which doesn't work in Docker containers, see this AppImage wiki page and the AppImage wiki page I wrote regarding packaging .NET Core apps. So the following is probably required:

1. netpkg-tool needs to check if it's inside a container. If not: use appimagetool as is, otherwise unpack it and use the binary inside its AppDir
2. libglib2.0-0 needs to be installed in the Docker image so unpacking the appimagetool works

I've done something similar for philippgille/hello-netcoreapp, so I know how to do this and I would like to create a PR if you think this would be a nice feature.

Microsoft has released the final version of .NET Core 2.0, and with it comes a breaking change in dependencies. It seems that apps compiled with the preview of .NET Core 2.0 are unable to be launched with the final version. As such, all releases prior to 0.3.5 will be unable to run without also having the preview release installed of .NET Core 2.0. Recompilation using source packages may remedy this, however.

To clarify, if you are using .NET Core 2.0, the minimum version of netpkg-tool you can use is 0.3.5. If you are still using preview2 of .NET Core 2.0, only versions 0.3.1-0.3.4 will be compatible

(This issue is merely for public record)