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Feature request: Snap support

Open jurjendevries opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Would love to see ipfs-sync as snap package. It will help me as an end-user with auto updates, safety (sandbox), and avoiding issues such as https://github.com/TheDiscordian/ipfs-sync/issues/5 because it is cross‐platform and dependency‐free. Also IPFS users my already be familiar with snap because it is one of the recommended ways to install IPFS. More about snap at https://snapcraft.io/about and instructions how to publish go software at https://snapcraft.io/first-snap#go

jurjendevries avatar Feb 19 '21 10:02 jurjendevries

fwiw we are moving away from recommending Snap due to issues caused by sandboxing and bad UX/DX in general. AppImage sounds like a better alternative, as it works on every distro and is not tied to proprietary services managed by Canonical (it requires custom udpate mechanism, but that is a feature IMO – one can create something that is based on IPFS+IPNS).

lidel avatar Mar 04 '21 16:03 lidel

I prefer native packages, but AppImage does appeal to me more as a universal alternative. I'm not against someone maintaining a snap though.

Thanks for the input guys!

TheDiscordian avatar Mar 04 '21 19:03 TheDiscordian