Feature request: snap package

[andrewebdev]

Description

It may be good to consider making a snap of Buffalo and publishing it to the
snap store for Linux users.

Some benefits:

• Users could easily install it via snap install buffalo
• The app can be discovered easily via snap find or via the snapcraft
  website [1].
• Package will be kept up to date automatically whenever the buffalo developers
  release a new version.
• Builds can be automated via, build.snapcraft.io, travis, or launchpad. If
  configured, every commit which lands in master will trigger a new build
  directly to the store automatically for all supported architectures.
• Rollback: if something goes wrong in an update, users can roll back to a
  previous release easily and keep their config/data
• Channels: You can have multiple versions of Buffalo active in the store.
  Users choose level of risk by selecting a channel. If you're doing a beta
  testing session, put the beta release in that channel and testers can snap install buffalo --beta to get the new goodness, then switch to stable when
  the beta is over.
• Tracks: You can support multiple stable releases in the store. So you could
  have the 0.1 branch in one track and 0.2 in another. You can publish updates
  to both, separately and have some users on each. Users who want to be 'sticky'
  on 0.1 can stay there. Very useful if 0.x is a breaking release, as it allows
  people to stay on existing version, and continue to get updates (if you push
  them).
• Metrics: The store provides aggregated details about how many people are
  running each release, and geographic location. This might be useful for you to
  focus development effort, translation drives etc.

There is a forum [3] where you can get help when making the snapcraft
configuration file.

[1] http://snapcraft.io/
[2] https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install
[3] http://forum.snapcraft.io/

[andrewebdev]

Just wanted to mention I started to work on this in case anyone else was thinking about it.

[ghost]

hey @andrewebdev this is useful for me at least !! :)

[mithucste30]

that will be very handy feature.