Week 36 of 2017 in snapcraft

Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from 03 September until 09 September of 2017.

Highlights

• snapcraft 2.34 has been tagged, currently available in Ubuntu Artful Aardvark, 16.04 LTS and 17.04 in proposed and the snapcraft beta channel.
• Catkin plugin support for pip dependencies is landing in pieces; should make it into next version.
• Leo added unit tests to the plugin contributed by James Beedy which was the last piece to allow it to land into master.

Development in master

• nodejs plugin: switch from –global-folder to –prefix PR: #1539
• jhbuild plugin: remove dependency on pkgconf PR: #1535
• tests: update the store failure tests PR: #1538
• jhbuild plugin: fix UnboundLocalError for chmod_path PR: #1534
• demos: update the name of the remote mqtt part PR: #1533
• tests: update the meson test to latest meson requirements PR: #1532
• lxd: use a unique temporary folder PR: #1519
• jhbuild plugin: new plugin PR: #1298
• project: introduce build-snaps PR: #1518
• repo: use os-release(5) to detect supported Linux distributions PR: #1527
• demos: remove the unnecessary wrapper from the java demo PR: #1494

This weeks Pull Requests

• tests: add integration tests for build snaps PR: #1542
• tests: fix the TEST_STORE environment variable PR: #1541
• plugins: extract python finder functions PR: #1540
• project_loader: aliases are deprecated PR: #1537
• repo: implement :target suffix for package names PR: #1536
• tests: share the cache dir in the integration suite PR: #1530
• recording: record the packages installed in the machine PR: #1529
• recording: record the machine information collected by uname PR: #1528

Current active forum discussions

• Kivy App Not Working In Strict Confinement
• Launchpad now builds snaps in LXD containers, in support of “build-snaps”
• Easy configuration/customization for a snap
• Use of Python’s DistUtilsExtra causes pip install failure
• Staging dependencies that go into the snap
• Having trouble understanding snap packaging
• Snapcraft snap doesn’t exclude any libs from snaps it builds
• Specifying architecture on cross-compilations
• Snapcraft: easy way to know what is target arch in scriptlets
• 11 questions with no answers on Stack Exchange
• Snapcraft autopkgtest failure
• Why doesn’t my nodejs snap create a binary?
• Snapcraft errors with No such directory /tmp/
• Run snapcraft in container as a user
• Qt5 open in browser (QDesktopServices::openUrl()) does’t work
• Declaratively defining environment variables
• Snapcraft build-on hint for builders
• Asset recording for a built snap
• Where has snapcraft edge snap gone?

Ecosystem

• A new OS to check out, Nitrux with snaps front and centre.