--- title: Week 32 In Snapcraft description: Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 7 until August 13 of 2017. Development in master The theme of code landing into master this week was mostly about robotics, from polishing and refactoring to ease the development of ROS 2 support (ament plugin) as well as supporting new features. Aside […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/week-32-in-snapcraft?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Sergio Schvezov](https://canonical.com/blog/author/sergio-schvezov "More about Sergio Schvezov") 15 August 2017 # Week 32 In Snapcraft [snapcraft.io](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/snapcraft-io) --- Share the article Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 7 until August 13 of 2017. ## Development in master The theme of code landing into master this week was mostly about robotics, from polishing and refactoring to ease the development of ROS 2 support (`ament` plugin) as well as supporting new features. Aside from that, worth mentioning is that the next release of snapcraft (2.34) will have support for a Windows msi to ease the installation and get snapcraft working on that operating system (sans local building support). * kbuild plugin: support Makefile without install target [PR: #1432](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1432) * recording: record the original snapcraft.yaml [PR: #1407](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1407) * options: properly handle missing compiler prefix [PR: #1425](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1425) * kbuild plugin: move over the cross-compiling logic from the kernel plugin [PR: #1417](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1417) * catkin plugin: include-roscore is a boolean [PR: #1472](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1472) * catkin plugin: default to release build [PR: #1470](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1470) * catkin plugin: rosinstall-files is a pull property [PR: #1473](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1473) * catkin plugin: support passing args to cmake [PR: #1471](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1471) * Extract rosdep into its own package [PR: #1464](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1464) * Add cx\_Freeze options targeting bin/snapcraft [PR: #1478](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1478) * cli: better error message for missing mksquashfs [PR: #1481](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1481) * ci: skip the CLA check for pull requests from the bot [PR: #1482](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1482) ## This weeks Pull Requests These are the pull requests that showed up during the week: * lxd: configure user in container [PR: #1484](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1484) * lxd: path cannot have extra forward slashes [PR: #1483](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1483) * rosdep: add support for multiple dependency types [PR: #1479](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1479) * kbuild plugin: use ARCH from environment if set [PR: #1474](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1474) * add support for the “contact” field in snapcraft [PR: #1447](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1447) * cli: properly handle exceptions [PR: #1436](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1436) For a full list of pull requests go to  ## Current active design forum discussions * [Support the `on` statement for `build-packages`](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/support-on-in-build-packages/1641/8) * [Running snapcraft as a unprivilidged user](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/run-snapcraft-in-container-as-a-user/1438/23) * [Updating persistent containers once and explicitly](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/update-persistent-containers-once-and-explicitly/1648/1) * [Recording build details from the python plugin](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/record-build-details-of-python-snaps/1640/2) * [Plugin design: how to organize components](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/plugin-design-how-to-organize-components/1287/9) * [The meson plugin requires a specific target to exist](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/meson-part-refusing-to-build-because-plugin-uses-argument-snapbuild/1636) * [Telling snapcraft not to generate wrappers](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/telling-snapcraft-to-skip-generating-wrapper-scripts/1635) ## Ecosystem ### More snaps! If you needed to install these look no more and follow the installation instructions: * geocoder:  * internetarchive:  And some more snaps coming soon (blockchain related) with recently landed `snapcraft.yaml` and being added to ci/cd: * solium:  * decentraland:  ### Conferences This week, on the 18th and 19th, you can catch part of the snapcraft team, Leo and Sergio, speaking at the [UbuconLA 2017](http://www.ubuconla.org/en/), these are the sessions (they will be carried out in Spanish): * [snapcraft and the new free software communities](http://summit.ubuntu.com/ubuconla-2017/meeting/22738/snapcraft-y-las-nuevas-comunidades-de-software-libre/) * [Getting to your users](http://summit.ubuntu.com/ubuconla-2017/meeting/22736/llegando-a-usuarios-con-snapcraft/) * [Workshop on creating snaps and doing continous delivery through the snap store](http://summit.ubuntu.com/ubuconla-2017/meeting/22732/empaquetamiento-de-snaps-y-publicacion-continua-en-la-tienda-de-ubuntu/) *This article originally appeared at the [snapcraft github](https://gist.github.com/sergiusens/adb836deb9e5d00866a0d76a6d9222ed#file-ww32-md)* [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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