Snap vs Snappy

Jacob Humphrey jacob.ryan.humphrey at gmail.com
Fri May 27 20:14:48 UTC 2016


Hi,
     Thank you Gustavo and Leo for clearing that up. Is there anything I 
can do to help speed up the creation of the new documentation?

On 05/27/2016 02:44 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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