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kamranahmedse / git-standup

Recall what you did on the last working day. Psst! or be nosy and find what someone else in your team did ;-)
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Add snapcraft support to build snaps #100

Closed popey closed 5 years ago

popey commented 5 years ago

git-standup is awesome, thanks for making it. We recently had a team sprint and it was great to be able to summarise all the work done with one command. Love it <3

During that sprint I created a snap package of git-standup so it can be featured in the Snap Store, which is a cross-distribution app-store for Linux. Once in the store, it can be easily installed via ‘snap install’ or via GNOME Software or KDE Discover on most distros.

A single snap (built for many architectures) in the Snap Store will be installable on numerous popular Linux distributions with no changes. It’ll also be discoverable via the Snap Store, where releases are under your control.

If you're willing to publish this under the git-standup project name, you just need to create an account and then register the git-standup name.

A snap file created by snapcraft (our free software tool for building snaps) can then be released in the Snap Store with snap push --release stable *.snap. You'll want to install snapcraft (brew install snapcraft, snap install snapcraft, or apt install snapcraft) and login (snapcraft login) first, though.

You may also want to consider using https://build.snapcraft.io/ which is a free build service, that can create armhf, amd64, i386, arm64 and other builds of git-standup, and push them to the store automatically. Alternatively it’s possible to integrate publishing the snap via your existing travis CI / release process.

I appreciate you may not be aware of snaps and snapcraft, and I’d of course be happy to answer any questions you may have.

kamranahmedse commented 5 years ago

Thanks, I will look into it.