Switch backend engines to AppImages. #355
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The update_parsers check already covers this, and it blocked the ability to update from versions we don't support uploads for.
IMPORTANT: AppImages older than playtest-20190106 must not be used. They lack support for the --utility argument and will instead try to launch the game! AppImages should be renamed to (ra|cnc|d2k|ts).AppImage and placed in a directory named after the version tag.
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This PR switches the engine backend from locally compiled builds to self-contained AppImages for the default mods.
This is not a proper implementation of #326, instead just implementing the minimum viable hack needed to support the upcoming official release. The current implementation forces us to drop parsers for anything before
playtest-20190106, which was the first release to include the--utilityAppImage flag. We will need to work around this when we get around to the big legacy-version map cleanup.This also includes a couple of minor code cleanups and restores the map update logs that were accidentally broken by #350.