please try my golang snap

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 6 February 2017 at 02:55, Shuduo Sang <shuduo.sang at canonical.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Shuduo Sang <shuduo.sang at canonical.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I got following output after run it:
>>
>> $ go-17-mwhudson.go-17
>> /snap/go-17-mwhudson/2/gowrapper: line 3: /snap/go-17-mwhudson/2/bin/go:
>> No such file or directory
>>
>> My snap version is:
>> $ snap version
>> snap    2.21
>> snapd   2.21
>> series  16
>> ubuntu  16.04
>>
>> Please let me know what mistake I have.
>>
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> UPDATE: I notice the go binary is referred to library from /snap/core
> $ file /snap/go-17-mwhudson/current/bin/go
> /snap/go-17-mwhudson/current/bin/go: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64,
> version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter
> /snap/core/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,
> BuildID[sha1]=3e694c21430e17b6bba99bd1828696a784ffab8a, not stripped
>
> But I have /snap/ubuntu-core only.
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> After refresh ubuntu-core from candidate channel then it transit to
> /snap/core now go-17 works well. Thanks zyga's help.
>

 Ah good, glad you got it working.

I think this makes sense as a way to distribute Go to people who want to
use Go on their machines. I maintain a PPA with backports of new versions
of Go to older releases of Ubuntu but it's a bit fiddly and snaps would be
better (and also get cross distro coverage). I think to get to the point of
it being a good general distribution mechanism, we need:

1) testing (so that's everyone who's downloaded it so far)
2) pick a better snap name, or set of snap names (go-16, go-17, go-18 or
go16, go17, go18 or something else?)
3) get it into the stable channel
4) building in Launchpad would surely be nice to get better architecture
coverage

Have I missed anything?

Cheers,
mwh
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