On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 23:29 -0600, Spencer wrote: > One advantage of snaps, I believe, is that the dependencies are baked > into them. Otherwise, your app can stop working after installation > if a dependency is updated or otherwise changed. I'm not sure what > other advantages there may be. One downside is extra memory cost, > but with storage up to a terabyte being typical, I don't think it > matters too much. > That's one of the main reasons I like using snaps, everything is built in, I don't have to search all over for dependencies. As you said, everything is there.
> Though I have an Intel machine, my snaps always say "amd64", which I > think is confusing. > > Supposedly, you can write snaps for the Ubuntu phone. (I have an > iPhone, so I'm not sure what that's about.). And there is something > called the Ubuntu touch? Is that like the iPad? I think some Ubuntu > specific features have been added to Qt as well to help promote > development on Ubuntu. I'm a big fan of wxWidgets, personally. > > And then everything runs in a quarantined environment. If you're > going to open the flood gates on people writing and consuming > programs, security becomes a necessary evil. > That's the main selling point for me, everything is 'sandboxed' > I haven't explored the plugs and slots yet. > I've read about them is about it. I may try my hand as building a few simples ones just to see how easy/hard it is. Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 08:37:19 up 14:47, 1 user, load average: 0.46, 0.23, 0.29 Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-42-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 23:11:45 UTC 2016 -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
