<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Spencer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spencertparkin@gmail.com" target="_blank">spencertparkin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My entry into the snap world has been a tough one. There is online documentation, but it is not kept up-to-date. I get the feeling that the bar for entry is the need to be the kind of person who loves to learn everything about a system by becoming one of its developers. For example, I couldn't figure out how to use the scons plugin until I dug into the python code for it. Is it documented somewhere? I don't know.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I share your feeling. We're doing a suboptimal job on documentation, both for snapcraft and for snapd itself. We need fix that.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Anyhow, talking with someone on this mailing list, I learned a very useful thing: if you go down the snap road, you want to learn how to get the log information from you </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">app when it's installed in strict mode. I know of no other way to diagnose problems with your app exhibited in strict mode, but no where else.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Logs are indeed the best way at the moment. We need to introduce some further tooling to help out on the process.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Lastly, snaps, for now, once installed, can only be run from the command line. There is no desktop integration, even though, oddly, a desktop file is required. And I have no idea when or if an accepted snap will show up in the app directory.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>We need to catch up with the desktop team to see what are the dependencies on this area.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the review process, are you finding any delays? The goal is for it to be reviewed within a day or two at most, assuming it gets blocked on review at all.</div><div><br></div><div>We're also working to reduce much the need for manual reviews, so that more applications can benefit from instantaneous publishing.</div><div><br></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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