snapcraft 2.27 has been released

[Roberto Mier Escandón ]

Hey guys,

Couldn't we have environment property pointing also to a file script as
in the case of scriptlets. In the case of needing to set a bunch of
things before launching app I'd prefer having it in that way.

Cheers.

On 24/02/17 20:05, Kyle Fazzari wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/24/2017 10:49 AM, Claudio André wrote:
>>
>> 2017-02-17 10:49 GMT-02:00 Sergio Schvezov
>> <sergio.schvezov at canonical.com <mailto:sergio.schvezov at canonical.com>>:
>>
>>     Hello snapcrafters!
>>
>>     ## Setting up environment
>>
>>     No more wrapper scripts just to setup on environment entry, this is
>>     now tied into an app entry in `apps`. Here's a quick example:
>>
>>     ```yaml
>>     apps:
>>         vim:
>>             command: bin/vim
>>             environment:
>>                 VIMRUNTIME: $SNAP/share/vim/vim80
>>     ```
>>
>>
>> Hi, I tried to append to path (see below). It is not supported. 
>>
>> ```yaml
>>     environment:
>>       PATH: "$SNAP/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin:$PATH" 
>> ```
>>
>> I'm ok with it. But, in case this is not by design, I'm mailing you guys.
> 
> I can verify this. To clarify, this builds and runs fine, but actually
> results in the PATH including the string `$PATH` instead of expanding it.
> 
> Can a snapd dev comment on this? Is that intended?
> 
> 
>