Snaps & flatpacks

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 03.09.2020, 19:54 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via
ubuntu-users:
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2020 11:30:11 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > no, thanks to that classic feature snaps are not restricted like
> > this
> 
> Are flatpaks really restricted to it?
> 
> Usually flatpaks and snaps suffer from this, the link I provided is
> about a snap of claws that can't access spell checking.
> 
by default snaps are as restricted as flatpaks (using strict mode and a
set of standard interfaces your upload will automatically land in the
store. using classic mode your upload will be held until manual
approval) ... but you always have the ability to ask for classic mode
with snaps. 

if you are either a toolchain, IDE, editor, programming language or
compiler or can explain other valid reasons why restricted mode would
not work for your app at all, you can be granted classic mode after a
review. 

it is not a default and is a process that requires extra effort to make
sure the apps apply to the security and quality standards (since they
are not guarded by confinement).

in the end a classic snap is not much different to an upstream tarball
designed to be dropped into /opt, it just occupies a lot less space due
to the snap format, comes with update/rollback control and all other
snap features (snaphots, parallel installs, etc etc)

ciao
	oli
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