This tracks the current state of the snapcraft image. This main text is updated to reflect the current state.

Howto install and update

Beta version:

sudo snap install jabref --beta

Latest snapshot:

• sudo snap install jabref --edge --devmode
• sudo snap refresh jabref --edge --devmode

Current state

• Registered at https://build.snapcraft.io/user/koppor
• Travis is used for building as currently only CircleCI 2.0 is supported for building and we use CircleCI 1.0 for building. A switch to CircleCI 2.0 is tested at branch circleci20, but does currently not work and it does not seem to be easy to get it running
• build on Travis takes approx. 10 min
• build will take place at snapcraft-ci branch only to avoid much too much development versions at Ubuntu.
• Dashboard https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/dev/snaps/7999/

Open points

• Snapcraft image does not allow opening linked files - Snapcraft image does not allow opening linked files #3159
• Snapcraft image does not provide icon - Snapcraft image does not provide icon #3160
• publish stable version to Ubuntu's snap repository (https://uappexplorer.com/snaps) (currently no version visible) - has to be done manually
• Use https://build.snapcraft.io/ instead of travis
  • gradle binary cannot be downloaded from http://build.snapcraft.io. See: Allow downloading gradle binary canonical-web-and-design/build.snapcraft.io#918 -> we have to wait until the fix ant plugin, gradle plugin: add support for authenticated proxies canonical/snapcraft#1490 is released in snapcraft 2.34
  • Adapt build.gradle to include the version update in snapcraft.yml, currently done by https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/a06fa19ecf5235c0cd9d44e8dbdcd402ec7bf0ae/scripts/run-snapcraft.sh
• Minor: Follow up https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1718105
• Add documentation: http://discourse.jabref.org/t/connecting-with-libreoffice-snap-under-ubuntu-16-04/980/7?u=koppor
• Approval - see Get snapcraft build approved #5417 (comment)

Howto build locally

1. docker run -it -v /d/git-repositories/jabref/jabref:/tmp/snap koppor/snapcraft-java-de bash
2. cd /tmp/jabref
3. snapcraft
4. Read along at https://snapcraft.io/docs/build-snaps/publish

References

• http://snapcraft.io/docs/build-snaps/metadata
• https://snapcraft.io/docs/build-snaps/publish
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/snapcraft/parts
• App store of Ubuntu: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/desktop/ and https://shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=19
• https://gist.github.com/evandandrea/c754964bfdfb176844f26f605ebbb8db
• The gradle support is very new (see Add a gradle demo and test canonical/snapcraft#912)