Re: Snapping scientific software

2017-03-24 Thread Marcus Tomlinson
Thanks for this mardy. A very interesting read (& video)! > On 24 Mar 2017, at 23:33, Alberto Mardegan > wrote: > > Hi there! > Please bear with my boasting for a while. :-) I just wrote a blog > post [1] on my experience with snapping photogrammetry software, that is > software which can bui

Re: Meta-packages for snaps

2017-03-24 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 25/03/17 00:27, mhall119 wrote: Usually you would include all related tools in the same snap. Is there a need to having them separate if they all need to be installed together? Mostly that they don't technically _need_ to all be together. I mean, why not split stuff up if its components ca

Re: Meta-packages for snaps

2017-03-24 Thread mhall119
Usually you would include all related tools in the same snap. Is there a need to having them separate if they all need to be installed together? On Mar 24, 2017 6:42 PM, "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" < joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> wrote: > Hello folks, > > Is it possible -- or are there plans for --

Defining multiple (external) snap packages in a single git repo

2017-03-24 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
Hello all, I've been discussing with some of the D language developers about how to move forward with snap packages for the core D tools. The D language project has a dedicated git repo for building packages for various targets [1] and the obvious place to define snap packages would be there

Meta-packages for snaps

2017-03-24 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
Hello folks, Is it possible -- or are there plans for -- snap 'meta-packages' whose only job is to make sure that multiple related snap packages get installed together? The use-case I'm thinking of is a collective 'dlang' meta-package that would install a group of snaps each providing a diffe

Snapping scientific software

2017-03-24 Thread Alberto Mardegan
Hi there! Please bear with my boasting for a while. :-) I just wrote a blog post [1] on my experience with snapping photogrammetry software, that is software which can build a 3D model out of a set of 2D photographs. I also made a video overview of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E

is it the gadget snap upgradable?

2017-03-24 Thread Nicolino Curalli
hi all, I have a doubt. It seem that a gadget can't be upgraded during the lifetime of a supported board. I don't find anything in the snap framework for making it in a transational manner: is my mindset wrong? Thank in advance for any clarification. Nicolino -- Snapcraft mailing list Snap

Strategy for Snaps with Debugging Symbols

2017-03-24 Thread Dmitrii Shcherbakov
Hi everybody, My question is in the context of a libvirt & qemu snap but I think it is worthwhile to discuss that for any software written in C, C++ or other compiled languages for which debugging symbols can be generated. A lot of debugging tasks can be solved by looking at logs and {s,l}tracing

vim snap issue with bad system call

2017-03-24 Thread Woodrow Shen
Hello, In order to fit my habit for better experiences (e.g. bundle), I tried to snapcraft the vim snap [1], but after installing the snap and connecting the home interface, I got the weird error of bad system call when vim was closed with ":wq" for write. Another thing I noticed that .vim and .vi

Re: clarification about review process

2017-03-24 Thread Nicolino Curalli
hi Seth it seem what i need. Thanks a lot Nicolino Il 24/03/2017 07:36, Seth Arnold ha scritto: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 05:09:28AM +, Nicolino Curalli wrote: >> I want to build a CI pipeline for test my snap for the fundamental >> requirements to pass the review process before uploading it