Hi,
I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team working on Ubuntu
and Snapcraft [1].
We've created snaps, a platform that enables ISVs to directly control
delivery of software updates to users and make their software
available to a considerably wider Linux audience via the snap store.
We'd be very interested in hearing your experiences of distributing
software for Linux and the challenges you've encountered.
Snaps have a number of useful characteristics such as being simple to
create, support multiple Linux distributions [2], enable very simple
installation instructions and leverage container primitives to isolate
the applications. There are also various hooks and services [3]
available to automate the build and publish pipeline.
Who on the Swift team would be willing to have a conversation with
me to discuss snaps and if they can help with the distribution of Swift
to Linux users?
[1] https://snapcraft.io/
[2] Installing snapd | Snapcraft documentation
[3] https://build.snapcraft.io/
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Regards, Martin.
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Hi,
I’ve created a snap based on the Docker image.
I’ve filed a claim for swift in the Snap Store (the existing snap is unmaintained), but of course I’d like to see it adopted by Apple (or Canonical).
