Snap vs Snappy

Leo Arias leo.arias at canonical.com
Fri May 27 19:44:35 UTC 2016


Hello!

On 2016-05-27 13:40, Jacob Humphrey wrote:
>     I'm sorry if this has already been covered, but I couldn't find
> anything in the archives. Currently the snapd package for xenial
> contains the command "snap", which is used to manage snaps; however all
> of the documentation on the Ubuntu site refer to the command "snappy",
> which has the same purpose, but slightly different syntax.
> 
>     Is there a reason we have these two commands for the same purpose?
> Also, if "snap" is the command that is used in xenial, why do we not
> have documentation for it? I'd appreciate any clarification on this matter.

snappy was the name of the command in 15.04. It was renamed to snap in
16.04. We are still updating the new documentation in the site, sorry
about it!

pura vida.

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