apt and package versioning

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 12:26, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 06.03.2020, 11:16 +0000 schrieb Colin Law:
> >
> > ...maintained by the node-red team.
>
> so is the snap ... with the difference that the snap also keeps itself
> up to date ...

That is often not a desirable feature in an environment where node red
is running some sort of control system.  Though I presume it can be
disabled again it is something to think about.

>
> >  There are problems with using the
> > snap with something like node-red as often one needs access to bits
> > of
> > hardware (USB serial ports for example) which can be an issue when
> > using the snap.  There are regular questions on the node red forum
> > [2]
> > from users having such problems.
> >
> thanks for pointing that out !
>
> i'll talk to them, USB serial hotplug support has long landed in snapd,
> they just need to update their snap description to actually make use of
> it ...

Also I believe one cannot access the GPIO pins if using it on a Pi.

A further problem, as I understand it, is that it is a problem to
install additional npm modules when installed via the snap, but I
don't know enough about it to comment much further.

Colin