Fix snap builds

[adam-stokes]

• Use core18
• Update the building section to be conformant with latest recommendations

Fixes #366

Signed-off-by: Adam Stokes battlemidget@users.noreply.github.com

[jhthorsen]

It would be a great fix if Convos could be available as a snap again, but since I haven't worked with snaps in a while I have some comments/questions.

Thanks for the PR 👍

[jhthorsen]

if you hook up github with snapcraft.io, it'll use launchpad to automatically build snaps.

You said something like the above on IRC - Unfortunately, I don't understand what you're saying. Can you point me to a howto or something to set this up?

[adam-stokes]

You said something like the above on IRC - Unfortunately, I don't understand what you're saying. Can you point me to a howto or something to set this up?

There are a couple of ways to do this, one is through travis-ci:

https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/continuous-snap-delivery-from-travis-ci#0

The other way is to hook it up through snapcraft.io directly:

https://snapcraft.io/build

This will auth against your github account and do the build automatically

[jhthorsen]

I will add the snippet below to the README after we've merged this:

[![Get Convos from the Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/convos)

[jhthorsen]

Thank you so much for the two links! I've set it up through https://snapcraft.io/build now, but it's failing since we haven't merged this PR :)

https://build.snapcraft.io/user/Nordaaker/convos/768947

[jhthorsen]

Awesome! Thank you 👍