Ubuntu Make as a classic snap: getting a 16.04 snap This is a suite of blog posts explaining how we snapped Ubuntu Make which is a complex software study case with deep interactions with the system. For more background on this, please refer to our previous blog post giving a quick introduction on the topic. Creating the snap skeleton The snap skeleton was pretty easy to create. Galileo from our community got a first stance at it. We can notice multiple things: 12 July 2017
Ubuntu Make as a classic snap: intro As Ubuntu Make is now in the community’s hands and we got some excellent regular contributors, one of those even became a core committer (good work again Galileo)! To be fair, they did most of the work in the past year. However, I was still a bottleneck for one thing: doing releases and pushing the debian package in Ubuntu. I thus recently took some time to turn the popular tool Ubuntu Make into a snap to see what the experience of switching a complex project to a snap could be like. 05 July 2017