ANN: Snapcraft 0.4 is now available

[Sergio Schvezov]

Snapcraft 0.4 is now available
Hi all,

We are happy to announce this release new version (0.4) of snapcraft:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/0.4

This release introduces quite a few bug fixes and some nice little things:

    - snapcraft help [<plugin-name> | <topic>] to guide you through plugin
use (with an additional --devel which would be useful for potential plugin
authors). We hope to continue improving this in future releases.
    - An initial catkin plugin which approaches us to ROS world.
    - Enhanced wiki usage, parts without types use the wiki with keywords
from the part replacing those in the wiki.
    - Plugins all use exceptions instead of boolean values.
    - snapcraft list-plugins to list the available plugins to create parts.

This release has many other bug fixes, those can be seen in the
aforementioned link.

To consume the latest snapcraft release on ubuntu, we suggest you install
snapcraft package from the snappy tools release ppa:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snappy-dev/tools
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install snapcraft

If you prefer to keep tracking our daily trunk builds, use our
tools-proposed ppa:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snappy-dev/tools-proposed
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install snapcraft

If you don't want to consume the examples from the source branch you can
also get them from the ppas above:

    sudo apt-get install snapcraft-examples

After installing this you can find them in
/usr/share/doc/snapcraft-examples/examples

To get the source for this release, you can branch lp:snapcraft/0.4
<https://launchpad.net/+branch/snapcraft/0.4>. The trunk is now available
at https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft

A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on
snapcraft is snappy-app-devel mailing list (
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-app-devel) or directly in
the #snappy channel on irc.freenode.net.

To file bugs, please go to
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/issues/new.

The team hopes to see you in the next snapcraft related snappy clinic where
we will be going over most of these new additions.

Happy snapcrafting,
 - Sergio and the team
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