<div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>With assertions finally being put to great use, it's time to kill the term "sideloading". That term does a disservice to our conversations, because it is vague and also limits the thinking around what is possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Whenever we use "sideloading", we mean one of two things:</div><div><br></div><div>1. The installation of a snap from the local filesystem</div><div>2. The installation of a snap that is not backed by assertions<br></div><div><br></div><div>We can talk about these cases using this actual terminology. To talk about the second case tersely we can use "unasserted", which is apparently a real term [1]:</div><div><br></div> "1. resting on a statement or claim unsupported by evidence or proof; alleged:"<div><br></div><div>That's exactly what we mean by that.</div><div><br></div><div>With assertions, we can have the first case without the second, though. A snap in the local filesystem doesn't necessarily have to be unasserted.</div><div><br></div><div>So:</div><div><br></div><div>Case 1: sideload => local snap</div><div>Case 2: sideload => unasserted snap</div><div><br></div><div>How does that sound?</div><div><br></div><div><div><br class="">[1] <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/unasserted">http://www.dictionary.com/browse/unasserted</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">gustavo @ <a href="http://niemeyer.net" target="_blank">http://niemeyer.net</a></div>
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