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] https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install [3] https://build.snapcraft.io/ -- Regards, Martin. _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
