I'm not really found of this decision from a pure developer experience perspective. What would make Mir special compared to other system libraries, like libsystemd, pulseaudio, evolution-data-server, your email service libs, and so on and so on?
Sure, we can separate all of them, but we are back in the deb world, which is exactly what we want to avoid with snap. Also, changing all existing snaps for that change really shows something isn't coorrect. It will mean that every applications that depends on mir-libs needs to declare an additional plug, create an empty directory and so on… I guess a better solution to pave the way forward is either: - get a version and stable ABI/API between the libs and the server (or this won't work on the long term anyway). - get that transparently transition for applications. Meaning, the content ubuntu-app-platform interfaces still ship the Mir functionality. However, this could be done either directly or via another content interface snap. It may needs some upstream development. Please discuss those changes on the snapcraft mailing list to not only base on my opinion. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1663048 Title: libmirclient in snaps gets out of sync with archive Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in Ubuntu App Platform: In Progress Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in unity8-desktop-session package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Because we directly include mir client libraries in the platform (due to a dependency of qtubuntu), when the mir interface is revised we get out of sync. The mir team publishes a mir-libs snap that tracks these changes and exposes a mir-libs content interface. We should investigate if that can be used transparently by apps connected to the platform. as of this report they are out of sync. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1663048/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
