[Python-Dev] Snap Python for simple distribution across multiple Linux distros

[Martin Wimpress]

On 23/05/17 09:27, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> On 05/23/2017 01:34 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 16 May 2017 at 08:08 Martin Wimpress 
>> <martin.wimpress at canonical.com <mailto:martin.wimpress at canonical.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team developing Ubuntu
>>     and Snapcraft [1] and I'm a long time Python fan :-)
>>
>>     We've created snaps, a platform that enables projects to directly
>>     control delivery of software updates to users. This video of a
>>     lightning talk by dlang developers at DConf2017 [2] shows how they've
>>     made good use of snaps to distribute their compiler. They found the
>>     release channels particularly useful so their users can track a
>>     specific release.
>>
>>     Is there someone here who'd be interested in doing the same for 
>> Python?
>>
>>
>> So the problem with adding Snap is it's yet one more thing for us to 
>> create at release time. And if we do this for Snap are there 
>> competitors from e.g. Fedora that people would want supported?
> 
> Not Fedora per se, Flatpak [0] (formerly `xdg-app`) is distro-agnostic [1].

Snaps are supported on Fedora 24, 25 and 26 [1] as well as other distros 
[2].

> 
> 
> [0] http://flatpak.org/
> [1] http://flatpak.org/faq.html
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[1] 
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/11/snap-support-lands-in-fedora-24-25-26/
[2] https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install

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Regards, Martin.