Should we hide the sideloaded versions? (Was: Re: Kernel snap debug advice)

[Mark Shuttleworth]

There are two different values that are important:

 * the human-readable version ("1.21b2")
 * the store revision ("243")

When sideloading an app, we'll still have the human-readable version
that the developer declared, but we won't have a store revision.

So the things we'll want to show are some combination of:

 * the developer-declared version ("1.21b2")
 * the hash of the blob ("i4h23o98")
 * the datetime when it was sideloaded

All of that info will be available with the right command. What we put
in which listing by default is a usability discussion we will no doubt
get to when this is implemented :)

Mark

On 18/11/15 11:10, Kyle Fazzari wrote:
> On 11/18/2015 01:59 PM, Leo Arias wrote:
>> This value is confusing, and not really useful. Should we just stop
>> showing it? Something like "-" would be slightly better than
>> "IFbCOQDeRJfW".
> This is indeed confusing, but I can imagine it being useful to still
> show the version of the snap-- is there a benefit to being able to
> sideload the same version over and over again? How does one now which
> version was actually sideloaded? Maybe I'm missing something here.
>
> Perhaps showing something like "1.0.1 (sideload)" or something would be
> even more helpful?
>
> --
> Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)
> Software Engineer
> Canonical Ltd.
> kyle at canonical.com
>
>
>

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