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+title = "Autosnap"
+date = "2020-08-27"
+author = "Aloïs Micard"
+authorTwitter = "" #do not include @
+cover = ""
+tags = ["My Projects", "Rust", "Packaging"]
+keywords = ["", ""]
+description = "Automatically make Snap package from source code."
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+
+As my dev workstation is running Ubuntu, I have recently started using [Snap](https://snapcraft.io/)
+to install most of my applications.
+
+Snap is an interesting packaging approach since it allows applications publisher to release new versions
+directly without having to involve distribution maintainers. This reduces the delay between application development
+and end users deployment.
+
+Another interesting aspect of Snap is that they are self-contained and running in a sandbox with limited access to the
+host system. This isolation improves security and allows multiples version of the same snap to be installed at the
+same time.
+
+The packaging of Snap applications is really simple and is done with a single file `snapcraft.yaml`.
+
+---
+
+Here's as example the configuration file of [osync](https://github.com/creekorful/osync):
+
+```yaml
+name: osync
+base: core18
+version: git
+summary: Tool to synchronize in a optimized way a lot of files to a FTP server.
+description: |
+  Osync is a Rust written tool designed to upload huge amount of files
+  to a remote FTP server, in an efficient manner.
+license: GPL-3.0
+
+grade: stable
+confinement: strict
+
+parts:
+  osync:
+    plugin: rust
+    source: .
+    build-packages:
+      - libc6-dev
+
+apps:
+  osync:
+    command: bin/osync
+    plugs:
+      - home
+      - removable-media
+      - network
+```
+
+As you can see, Snap packaging is quite straightforward and simple, but I think we can improve the experience.
+That's what I've tried with [autosnap](https://github.com/creekorful/autosnap).
+
+# Autosnap
+
+Autosnap allows automatic snap packaging easily in a fashion way:
+
+```sh
+$ autosnap https://github.com/creekorful/polonium.git
+2020-08-27 07:23:32,400 INFO  [autosnap] Starting packaging of https://github.com/creekorful/polonium.git
+2020-08-27 07:23:33,617 INFO  [autosnap] Successfully packaged polonium!
+2020-08-27 07:23:33,617 INFO  [autosnap] The snapcraft file is stored at /home/creekorful/Documents/polonium/snapcraft.yaml
+2020-08-27 07:23:33,618 INFO  [autosnap] Please fix any TODO in the file and run `cd /home/creekorful/Documents/polonium && snapcraft`
+```
+
+Depending on the language that will be packaged, autosnap will be able to detect the license,
+the build packages, the version, etc... and therefore ease the life of package maintainer.
+
+Current languages supported by Autosnap are: [Go, Rust] (new languages will be supported soon).
+
+Happy hacking!