<div dir="ltr">Hi Mark. Thanks for your quick reply. I could not help noticing your name. I presume you're probably not really the same Mark Shuttleworth that's been to space, or are you. :) </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <<a href="mailto:mark@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">mark@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 24/10/15 14:14, Werner Terreblanche wrote: > Also, while I'm here with the rest of the Snappy experts... the reason > why I want to try Snappy is because I've developed an app which currently > can run on Rasbian and X86 Ubuntu. I thought it would be cool to get > it to work with Snappy Ubuntu. However the things I'm a bit unsure > of..... will I be able to do things like "aplay" and espeak. As I > understand it, Snappy does not support the apt-get method, so does that > mean its not possible to install apps like espeak at all? With snappy, you'll bundle all the dependencies (like aplay and espeak) into a single "snap" and ship that as a single thing. That way, changes from us don't interfere with your application at all. The easiest way to do that is with a tool called snapcraft, take a look at that first then feel free to ask more questions here! One thing to be aware of; snappy is designed to stop applications from peeking at things that haven't been explicitly given to them, even if they are running as root. So if you need access to hardware, you'll need to say so explicitly in your snap. You'll definitely want a hand with that part, join one of the snappy clinics. We're working on a tool which will automatically advise you what permissions you need to allocate your snap, and also to make hardware management easier. But, once you get all those details squared away, snappy means you ship what you want when you want it, no matter what happens to any dependencies you count on. Mark </blockquote></div> </div>