Obviously. I'm ironing out a few things still but I think most of the old problems were solved in snapd in the meantime. Snaps have channels for testing packages before releasing them as stable, so I guess that would be a good idea to to use for thorough testing...
Cheers Max Am Fr., 15. März 2019 um 13:37 Uhr schrieb Marco Ciampa <[email protected]>: > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 01:29:55PM +0100, Maximilian Federle wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've packaged KiCAD 5.1 as a snap package (https://snapcraft.io/) as > > well as the libraries: https://github.com/ppd1990/kicad-snap > > > > It is not in the store yet, however a very outdated (also not building > > anymore) version is: https://snapcraft.io/kicad-snap > > The developer states that he doesn't have the time to maintain it > > anymore and so I'd like to take over publishing more up-to-date > > packages. Store guidelines recommend using a name without suffix, so > > in this case that'd be "kicad" and not "kicad-snap". > > However, "kicad" is already registered by some unknown (to me) > > developer, but nothing is published under this name. > > > > So my questions are: > > > > 1) > > Does anyone here hold the registration of the "kicad" name in the snap > > store? > > If yes, would you agree to publish a package under it or transfer the name? > > > > 2) > > Do you, as a project, have interest in such a package? > > If yes, I could request a name transfer of the "kicad" snap name with > > the backing of the upstream project. > > First I think it should be tested throughly... I tried some time ago the > snap package and found some (small?) problems. First the inability to > allow execution of sistem web browser, pdf reader and text editor, which > makes life a bit difficult for the snap KiCad user... Could you check > please if these problems are still present? > > -- > > > Marco Ciampa > > I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. > > ------------------------ > > GNU/Linux User #78271 > FSFE fellow #364 > > ------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
