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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Peter<br>
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While snaps are currently Linux-only, there is good progress on a
range of related fronts in the Windows Subsystem for Linux
("Ubuntu for Windows") which makes it plausible that snaps could
be built on a future Windows as easily as on native Linux today.<br>
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On Linux, currently most snaps are built on Ubuntu. They don't
have to be - the format doesn't require it, and those snaps can
run on other distributions even if built on Ubuntu - but the main
'snap assembly' tool is snapcraft which currently assumes Ubuntu.
At the most recent gathering of snap developers we figured out a
path to have diverse base Linuxes (say a Fedora core library set)
as well as to have snapcraft building on a range of Linux distros,
but I can't say when that will be in place.<br>
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Electron is *great* and we'd like to have a standard way for folks
using electron to publish a snap. One of the nice things about
snaps is that you have an 'edge' channel into which you can
release daily builds from your CI, and highly engaged / crazy
community members and developers can thus easily run the trunk.
Same goes for beta and release candidate, the channel system is
very useful.<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
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On 13/11/16 14:58, Peter Uithoven wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi folks,<br>
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This is a question <span id="gmail-result_box"
class="gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="gmail-">on
behalf of the people behind Electron: Is is possible
to create snaps from other platforms than Linux? Would
this be possible through a Docker container? Are there
docs on this? <br>
</span></span><span id="gmail-result_box"
class="gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="gmail-"><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/525#issuecomment-260109515">https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/525#issuecomment-260109515</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/509">https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/509</a><br>
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<span id="gmail-result_box" class="gmail-short_text"
lang="en"><span class="gmail-">Electron enables the
creation of cross platform application using web
technologies (javascript, css, html, Node.js etc). The
Atom editor for example is build with it. <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://electron.atom.io/">http://electron.atom.io/</a><br>
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<span id="gmail-result_box" class="gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span
class="gmail-">Thanks in advance,<br>
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<span id="gmail-result_box" class="gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span
class="gmail-">Peter Uithoven<br>
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