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Former Canonical Developer is Working on a Script that Replaces Snaps with Flatpaks (linux.slashdot.org)

submitted 1 year ago by staticlifetime@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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Linux magazine reports that "Former Snap co-developer Alan Pope, who left Canonical in 2021 after 10 years with the company, has developed unsnap, a script that replaces snaps with Flatpaks where available. The script, hosted on GitHub, has been tested by the developers for use on Ubuntu and all de...

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[–] bit@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alan Pope was a fantastic community manager, but as the headline says he left.
I’m happy to see him still in this sphere, contributing to a fine cause

[–] UnhappyCamper@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, though I'm unsure why you'd bother with this. The script just searches for equivalent flatpaks and converts them. If there's no flatpak in existence for an app, it doesn't do anything to it. Just download the equivalent flatpak to begin with? Am I missing something?

[–] staticlifetime@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Same reason why you'd automate anything. It saves you some time if that's what you're trying to do.

[–] Gentlegrrl@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

"Stop trying to make Snap happen. It's not going to happen!" – Regina

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