Outdated go-ipfs on the Snap Store breaks IPFS Desktop onboarding experience #7250
Description
Context:
- snap (snapstore) is now the default package manager for Ubuntu since 20.04
- go-ipfs 0.5.0 was just released on several places but not snap (current version : 0.21),
- IPFS Desktop was released on several places including snap (current version : 0.11 as expected).
Problem:
- go-ipfs is late on snap.
- Hence, following instructions from Readme will install an outdated version.
- Worst, it will install a version which is incompatible with IPFS Desktop. IPFS Desktop is supposed to be the easy way in IPFS-land (or rather IPFS outer-space... ).
Proposed solution:
- Manually bump go-ipfs on snapstore to 0.5.0
- Include publishing go-ipfs to snapstore to the regular release process
Alternative, sad solutions:
- remove go-ipfs from snapstore
- or remove IPFS Desktop from snapstore.
Since IPFS Desktop is supposed to be the onboarding app for naive users, being able to install both it and IPFS via the default package manager is handy.
@ElOpio for the snap update,
@lidel for the IPFS Desktop side
Related: #5423