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[Maximilian Federle <max.federle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Obviously. I'm ironing out a few things still but I think most of the
old problems were solved in snapd in the meantime.
Snaps have channels for testing packages before releasing them as
stable, so I guess that would be a good idea to to use for thorough
testing...

Cheers
Max

Am Fr., 15. März 2019 um 13:37 Uhr schrieb Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 01:29:55PM +0100, Maximilian Federle wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've packaged KiCAD 5.1 as a snap package (https://snapcraft.io/) as
> > well as the libraries: https://github.com/ppd1990/kicad-snap
> >
> > It is not in the store yet, however a very outdated (also not building
> > anymore) version is: https://snapcraft.io/kicad-snap
> > The developer states that he doesn't have the time to maintain it
> > anymore and so I'd like to take over publishing more up-to-date
> > packages. Store guidelines recommend using a name without suffix, so
> > in this case that'd be "kicad" and not "kicad-snap".
> > However, "kicad" is already registered by some unknown (to me)
> > developer, but nothing is published under this name.
> >
> > So my questions are:
> >
> > 1)
> > Does anyone here hold the registration of the "kicad" name in the snap store?
> > If yes, would you agree to publish a package under it or transfer the name?
> >
> > 2)
> > Do you, as a project, have interest in such a package?
> > If yes, I could request a name transfer of the "kicad" snap name with
> > the backing of the upstream project.
>
> First I think it should be tested throughly... I tried some time ago the
> snap package and found some (small?) problems. First the inability to
> allow execution of sistem web browser, pdf reader and text editor, which
> makes life a bit difficult for the snap KiCad user... Could you check
> please if these problems are still present?
>
> --
>
>
> Marco Ciampa
>
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