Add a snap

[evandandrea]

Hi jarun. I saw that bcal wasn't released in the Snap Store so I went ahead and created a snapcraft.yaml for it. If you want to build and test this locally, run snap install snapcraft on Ubuntu or install Multipass and brew install snapcraft on MacOS.

If you release it in Snap Store, the millions of Linux users can install it with snap install bcal or at https://snapcraft.io/bcal, which is a bit easier than the debs and rpms on the GH releases page. If you're up for that, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes: create an account, then:

snapcraft login
snapcraft register bcal
snapcraft push --release stable *.snap

[jarun]

Would it be possible to handle this as a part of snapcrafters? e.g.: https://github.com/snapcrafters/googler

[evandandrea]

Thanks for the quick reply. It would preferably live upstream with your name as the publisher on it, that way end users can be confident it's unmodified. Snapcrafters is more for things that are getting off the ground, where they're not quite ready for the upstream developer yet.

[jarun]

The problem is, I hardly have the time to maintain downstream packages myself. Hence the request.

[jarun]

Closing with the comments here: jarun/nnn#162 (comment).