Future work: Arm64 build

[ppd]

• There's an arm64 build of the KDE Neon platform snap: https://snapcraft.io/kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-3-core20
• There are arm64 snap builders on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/

It could work like this:

• Create repo on Launchpad
• Mirror GitHub repo to Launchpad
• Set up snap recipe(s) on Launchpad

Or like this:

• Call snapcraft remote-build from GH action: https://snapcraft.io/docs/remote-build
• but that proved to be messy and inconsistent with the solvespace snap

What needs to be solved:

• Having the builds on GitHub Actions is nice and transparent. Launchpad complicates stuff.
• How do we get feedback for those builds back into this repo?

Example in the wild: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-sdk/+git/gnome-sdk

[luzpaz]

Any examples of this 'in the wild' for other projects ?

[ppd]

The firefox snap does the same:
https://github.com/canonical/firefox-snap/
https://code.launchpad.net/~mozilla-snaps/firefox-snap/+git/firefox-snap/

[ppd]

See solvespace/solvespace#1273 for a remote-build implementation on Github Actions.

[ppd]

We've tried the remote-build approach for a whopping 99 different KDE snaps, and it's working great: https://invent.kde.org/packaging/snapcraft-kde-applications/-/pipelines/215669