On 10 May 2017 at 15:05, Alan Pope <alan.p...@canonical.com> wrote: > so we can understand why some software developers aren't keen on > investing time to make a snap.
You work for a commercial organisation - which is fine btw!. If a commercial entity invests time + money in doing some activity, they'd expect to see some commercial benefit. If a purely open source project invests time in producing more binary distributions, the only result they would see would be an increased workload due to whoever is producing binaries is the first line of support for issues with those binaries. The current system, where PHP and the extensions are packaged by Ubuntu, Debian, Centos etc people, who are then the first line of call for bugs on that platform, prevents a large number of platform specific bugs from reaching the PHP team. > make their software > available to a considerably wider audience via our snappy store Two things: i) I don't think the PHP project would actually get a considerably wider audience by starting to release snaps. PHP is kind of available in quite a few places already. ii) The PHP project is already constrained by a lack of development resources. Having someone manage these snaps and also triage the increased number of platform specific issues is unlikely to be something we could cope with. cheers Dan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
