Let's kill "sideloading"

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com
Fri Sep 2 00:36:23 UTC 2016


Hi Seth,

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com>
wrote:t

> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 07:15:25PM -0300, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > With assertions finally being put to great use, it's time to kill the
> term
> > "sideloading". That term does a disservice to our conversations, because
> it
>

> What are assertions?


An assertion is just a signed document that we can hand a snappy system.

So the point here is that installing a local snap and having that signed
information are orthogonal to each other.

Historically one implied the other, and we had that term to refer to both
of them at once. Nowadays, speaking of a "local installation" and the
assertions/signed document clearly is much more clear.


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
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