Add support for building snaps #28
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Hi. I recently discovered legit. As someone who is very lazy about putting the correct licenses in things I make, this has made a real difference to me. So thank you for making it!
This pull request enables creation of a snap package of legit. The single snap (built for many architectures) in the Snap Store will be installable on numerous popular Linux distributions with no changes. It’ll also be discoverable via the Snap Store, where releases are under your control.
If you're willing to publish this under the legit project name, you just need to create an account and then register the legit name.
A snap file created by snapcraft (our free software tool for building snaps) can then be released in the Snap Store with
snap push --release stable *.snap. You'll want to install snapcraft (brew install snapcraft, snap install snapcraft, or apt install snapcraft) and login (snapcraft login) first, though.You may also want to consider using https://build.snapcraft.io/ which is a free build service, that can create armhf, amd64, i386, arm64 and other builds of legit, and push them to the store automatically. Alternatively it’s possible to integrate publishing the snap via a third party CI system such as travis or circle-ci.
I appreciate snaps and snapcraft may be a new thing to you, so I’d be happy to answer any questions you may have.