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This is really cool. I was looking through the yaml and did not see a key for a version number. Do snaps have that option? |
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I don’t know much about snapcraft so you will have to keep me honest. When I looked up the docs for version number I saw that it was a mandatory key. I am assuming that means that having it in the yaml is a necessary condition for an upload to snapcraft. Could you double check that all other mandatory keys are present in this file?
As a reference I was looking here https://snapcraft.io/docs/snapcraft-yaml-reference
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| Tidy Viewer (tv) is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment. | ||
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Add version: 0.0.13 and any other mandatory keys. https://snapcraft.io/docs/snapcraft-yaml-reference
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So, you're right: all snaps must be given a version string at build time. You can do that with the version key, or in this case, I sprinkled a bit of magic 🎩 in for that. adopt-info: tidy-viewer tells snapcraft to look in the tidy-viewer part for additional metadata. There, I used the override-pull key to add a step to the build that sets the snap version to the output of git describe --tags --abbrev=0.
This would let you automate things a bit: once you've published the snap in the store, you can point it at the Github repo, and it can automatically build and publish new versions to an edge channel. You would then just promote those builds to a stable channel whenever they were ready/you felt like it/you remembered. 🙂
However, it's no big deal to use a version key, you'd just need to manually push the version number with every new build. Let me know which approach you'd like, and if needed I can edit this PR accordingly.
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Thanks for teaching me how it works.
Adds a
snapcraft.yamlwhich can be used to buildtidy-vieweras a snap and publish it to the Snap Store.I've built it successfully on my machine. 🙂