So I was rather surprised by this Softpaedia article today:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/snap-packages-become-the-universal-binary-for...
It claims that Canonical state that they have been working with Fedora developers to make this the universal packaging format.
The snapcraft.io site instructions say to use a COPR by a Canonical employee who is not a Fedora packager.
Does anyone in marketing or development now what the article is referring to and what's going on?
On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 19:26 +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
So I was rather surprised by this Softpaedia article today:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/snap-packages-become-the-universal-binary-for...
The article appears to be more or less an uncritical re-statement of the press release it includes (click 'show press release'). The article does not actually give a very clear source for the press release, but it is of course Canonical, being wildly misleading as always:
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/06/14/universal-snap-packages-launch-on-mul...
the press release is clearly the source of the bogus 'working with' claim. The wording in the press release is:
"Developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies today announced collaboration on the “snap” universal Linux package format"
which, in classic Canonical style, is pitched perfectly to make sure news sites draw the wrong conclusions, without being quite specific enough to be actionably false...
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