Re: Emacs as a snap package

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 5/21/19 6:01 PM, Alex Murray wrote:
> As such I would be keen to get feedback on the following:
>
> 1. Maintain an official snapcraft.yaml recipe for Emacs within the Emacs
> git tree across both master and the various release branches which can
> be used to build 'official' Emacs snaps directly from the git source
> tree.

I assume this has the function of the already-existing .gitlab-ci.yml 
file that Emacs already has in the master branch. That file is for 
GitLab continuous integration builds, whereas snapcraft.yaml would be 
for snap.

This raises the issue: if we start supporting multiple CI platforms, 
perhaps we should put build-instruction files into a new directory 
(build-aux/ci, say), rather than cluttering the toplevel directory with 
such files.


> 2. Register an official GNU Project account for the Snap store and use
> this to publish these official snap builds.
>
> 3. Optionally, use the build.snapcraft.io service to provide automated
> builds directly (similar to the current emacs-snapshot PPA[8] which is
> widely used).

These are topics for RMS to address, I'd think. I'll CC: him.