Snap package

Feature Request

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Description

Hi there. I couldn’t an existing feature request for this, so I’d like to suggest a ‘Snap’ (https://snapcraft.io/) package of streamlink. If a Snap package existed, Linux users could install streamlink on their computer with a simple command:

sudo snap install streamlink

Or through the snap GUI of their distro. Users would get the benefit of an easy installation that always stays up-to-date. The current package maintainers would experience less work, because this single snap package would work across all distributions.

Thanks for your consideration and this excellent app! 😄

Expected / Actual behavior

Linux users would be able to install streamlink from the command line by typing

sudo snap install streamlink

Additional comments, screenshots, etc.

Instructions for creating a snap of a python application: https://snapcraft.io/#python

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Hello, I’m interested in helping on a snap package. I made a trial run to check and the Snapcraft auto-build pipeline seems to have mature support for Python projects. If I can help, there is one shortcoming in that I don’t have a rich test/QA environment. I have one Raspi Ubuntu server for my snaps so I would need others’ help to verify the snap output across the different targets (amd64, i386, ppc64, etc).

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With some advice on snapcraft forum, the ffplay dependencies list are now down to 13. Also included the filtering of the man pages and docs files. I didn’t have much luck with the architectures, yet. A config file, streamlinkrc, is editable so that the user has more control because $SNAP_DATA (/var/snap/test-streamlink/current) can be accessed by root. I think it can choose the location of plugins (commented example in file).

AppImage sounds interesting, but I haven’t built one before. The confinement feels like a hurdle at times, but that trade-off is to add protection. Like in a landscape where user does not know the app, the trust just needs to be in Snapcraft store and the Snap virtualization/container.