On 7 February 2017 at 09:25, Michael Hudson-Doyle < michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote: > > I think this makes sense as a way to distribute Go to people who want to > use Go on their machines. I maintain a PPA with backports of new versions > of Go to older releases of Ubuntu but it's a bit fiddly and snaps would be > better (and also get cross distro coverage). I think to get to the point of > it being a good general distribution mechanism, we need: > > 1) testing (so that's everyone who's downloaded it so far) >
More of this would be nice, but... > 2) pick a better snap name, or set of snap names (go-16, go-17, go-18 or > go16, go17, go18 or something else?) > The snap is now called 'go' and makes use of the newly announced 'tracks', with current tracks being 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8. If you don't specify a track you'll get 1.7 for now, but 1.8 soon when that is released (possibly tomorrow). > 3) get it into the stable channel > Now done, for 1.6, 1.7 and latest tracks. Hopefully soon I'll set up autobuilds of tip going to edge. > 4) building in Launchpad would surely be nice to get better architecture > coverage > Not quite there yet, but soon. Cheers, mwh Have I missed anything? > > Cheers, > mwh >
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