Sergio Schvezov, one of the main developers of Snapcraft, the tool that allows you to create snap packages for applications and that will allow us to update as soon as there are software news (among other things), has reported to the community about what is to come next to the launch of Snapcraft 2.12, version that will arrive in the next days. One of the novelties that this new version will include will be the possibility of accessing parts of the ecosystem.
Imagine I am someone who wants to use libcurl. Normally I would write the definition part from scratch and with my own business, but surely I would be missing some of the optimal changes used to configure the package or even create it. I also need to research on how to use the specific plugin required.
Snapcraft 2.12 is right around the corner
At the moment, the latest version available is Snapcraft 2.11, but everything is being prepared for the release of Snapcraft 2.12 and will soon arrive in the default repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus. Anyone who wants to install it and wait for the next version to appear as a software update, just open a terminal and type the following:
sudo apt update sudo apt install snapcraft
You can also install some Snapcraft examples, for which you would have to type the following in the terminal:
sudo apt install snapcraft-examples
In his Launchpad page We have all the changes coming to Snapcraft 2.1.2. There are many news, so if you want to know everything that is to come, it is worth taking a look at this page.
The snap packages They are available for Ubuntu since the version that was released on April 21. Thanks to these packages, users will gain in security and we will be able to receive the latest updates as soon as a developer has included them in their software.