Hello OfflineIMAP developers, I previously sent this mail to Nicolas directly, he recommended we discuss this in the open on this list..
I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team around Ubuntu and Snapcraft [1]. We’re working on snaps, a platform to enable ISVs to directly control delivery of software updates to their users, and make their software available to a considerably wider audience via our snappy store. I'm a bit of a fan of OfflineIMAP, having used it for a few years now at home to sync my company mail locally. The versions in some distro repositories is a bit old now. In Ubuntu 16.04 for example is 6.6, and Ubuntu 16.10 has 6.7. With snaps we could keep everyone up to date with the latest release, directly from github to the store. Snaps are easy to create (compared to some other packaging schemes) and automate. Indeed, attached is an example snapcraft.yaml file which would be consumed by the 'snapcraft' tool, to create a working offllineimap 7.0.13 snap. I'm using this locally myself. I was wondering if you’d be willing to have a conversation with me to discuss some ideas on how we can help deliver the latest and greatest version of OfflineIMAP to more users? [1] http://snapcraft.io/ Thanks -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering and Services +44 (0) 7973 620 164 [email protected] http://ubuntu.com/
snapcraft.yaml
Description: application/yaml
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