Week 34 of 2017 in snapcraft

This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums

Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 20-26, 2017.

Development in master

• many: simplify plugin loading PR: #1507
• grammar: move into project_loader PR: #1500
• project loader: refactor into package PR: #1504
• ci: speedup the CLA check PR: #1503
• tests: use assertThat instead of assertEqual PR: #1501
• python plugin: record manifest PR: #14871
• repo: make errors based on SnapcraftError PR: #1499
• cli: don’t raise from excepthook PR: #1495
• lxd: always remove existing device for project folder PR: #1488
• core: improve source caching logic PR: #1486

This weeks Pull Requests

• project_loader: process stage package grammar PR: #1509
• errors: introduce ContainerError PR: #1505
• lxd: pass original CLI arguments down to container PR: #1498

Current active design forum discussions

• Libraries not found in classic snaps
• Consume the build output of part 1 in part 2
• Suggestion: snapcraft init-gui
• Update persistent LXD containers
• ImportError: No module named six
• Week 33 of 2017 in snapcraft
• Snapcraft exits with ‘dict’ object is not callable
• How to use snapcraft to push snaps to the specific brand store？1
• Syntax for build-snaps
• Snapcraft – my first snap issues
• Running snap as daemon with several instances
• Snapcraft PLUGIN – jdk (Java runtime) —> app Error
• Stack traces of snapcraft executable
• Use of content interface for sharing files (read-only)

Ecosystem

• Kyle has a guest post on electronics weekly
• Sergio, along with Alan, ran a snapcraft office hours featuring rust
• Sergio wrote down his thoughts about UbuconLA that took place this year in Lima, Peru on insights