<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 February 2017 at 09:25, Michael Hudson-Doyle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.hudson@canonical.com" target="_blank">michael.hudson@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>1) testing (so that's everyone who's downloaded it so far)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>More of this would be nice, but...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2) pick a better snap name, or set of snap names (go-16, go-17, go-18 or go16, go17, go18 or something else?)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The snap is now called 'go' and makes use of the newly announced 'tracks', with current tracks being 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8. If you don't specify a track you'll get 1.7 for now, but 1.8 soon when that is released (possibly tomorrow).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>3) get it into the stable channel</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Now done, for 1.6, 1.7 and latest tracks. Hopefully soon I'll set up autobuilds of tip going to edge.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>4) building in Launchpad would surely be nice to get better architecture coverage</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not quite there yet, but soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>mwh</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>Have I missed anything?</div><div><br>Cheers,</div><div>mwh</div></div></div></div>
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