Hello Ubuntu app developers! I wanted to let you know about a change we've made to how app namespaces work in the store. Previously, the format was a reverse-domain approach, with the app name at the end (eg com.ubuntu.developer.beuno.hello). That worked fine while we just shipped a phone and the only UI for interacting with packages was in scopes.
Now that we're approaching convergence with the desktop on the one hand, and Snappy on the other, it becomes more common (or in the case of Snappy, the only way!) to interact with apps from a command line. The reality is, the reverse-domain approach was flawed, as it became clear the first time we typed "snappy install com.ubuntu.developer.beu...", I go annoyed half-way through. So we've decided to change it. The new format will be: packagename.developername (eg hello.beuno). That'll be the default. In time, we'll introduce a process to nominate packages into a top-level namespace (eg, hello), but for now, it should be much nicer to type and read. Existing packages are not affected, they keep the same old-style namespace. In fact, it's crucial they do as that's what clients look for when updating. New apps, however, will use the new format. In the future, we plan to introduce a one-time migration option that will move over apps with the old-style namespace to the new one, and rename it properly in all installed clients as well, to ensure your users aren't affected in any way. If you don't really have any users yet, feel free to unpublish the existing app and publish a new one under the new-style namespace. As usual, hop on to #ubuntu-app-devel if you have any questions. -- Martin -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : ubuntu-appstore-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
