Looking to distribute a commercial package as a snap

Seth Arnold seth.arnold at canonical.com
Wed Oct 5 22:30:16 UTC 2016


On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 03:26:45PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> I work on a popular visual effects package that's been around for 10+
> years. Unfortunately we have had to target specific, older Linux
> distributions to ensure maximum compatibility on various flavors of Linux,
> but I'm hoping packaging as a snap will avoid all this. I'm building on
> Kubuntu 16.04.

Just how old are those specific older distributions? I understand snapd
relies upon many features from newer Linux kernels and thus may not work
on arbitrarily old systems.

Thanks
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