Snap vs Snappy

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Fri May 27 19:44:04 UTC 2016


Hi Jacob,

The snappy command was part of the ancient Ubuntu Core release. Nowdays all
we have is "snap", which is just a client of snapd.

Documentation must be ported indeed. Sorry for the confusion.


On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Jacob Humphrey <
jacob.ryan.humphrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>     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.
>
> Thank you,
> Jacob Humphrey
>
>
>
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