The future of snappy/snaps?

[k1200]

Hi Forum Friends,

I've just been playing around with Snappy (aka ubuntu core) because of a robotics project I'm working on with a friend. We were really inspired by this blog:

https://kyrofa.com/posts/from-ros-prototype-to-production-on-ubuntu-core-1-5

since snaps allow us to package our product and deploy across across millions of cross-platform devices. Its been around for almost two years now but I'm finding it difficult to use without the flexibility of apt. I cant find any snaps with the tools I need, e.g. wget, others

For e.g. we want to test if snappy on a Raspberry Pi can support a specific i2c device over the GPIO header but there's no i2c-tools snap. Maybe this is an extreme example, but what's the communities thoughts on the developer friendliness of snaps vs production benefits specifically on embedded arm boards

[cariboo]

Have you had a look at:

https://forum.snapcraft.io/

[jsmolka]

For the moment you have to work with "trial and error" ...

This project is still very young and there are changes and improvements on every day -- also there is no written documentation and you have to look for information in many different places right now.

I just created a plain timer snap (ttimer (https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/dev/snaps/8079/)) and it has still some issues because of missing instructions or buggy code in the core and interfaces -- e.g. the connection to a web browser (the info button of the ttimer app) is a known bug they are working on already.


-- have a try ! -----------
...:~$ sudo snap install ttimer

:popcorn: