snapcraft package.yaml generation could be more beautiful and more human friendly

[Alexander Sack]

look at how snapcraft transforms the service/binary fields into something very machinish here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1528871 ...

i think investing a bit effort to make the outputted package.yaml to at best match the order of the elements the author used inthe snapcraft.yaml would be worthwhile.

If thats not possible at least ensure the dumper outputs name/exec aka start/description first for binaries and services first...

surely a wishlist, but if you look at the package.yaml from the bug above I am sure most will agree that its not very neat...

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

16:28 < asac> oh i think the real thing is that my stuff gets transformed from map style to list style... where the name is in the name: field... maybe we could just keep same style to make things less confusing (for me at least) with less effort. still think list approach for making binaries should look beautiful anyway...

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

xenial's snappy and snapcraft will support the same map seen, but it will also be rather different:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U6k0R9NPOyrn6MN16naOEX1BJ-BBzU6qHxMB4Ep_49w/edit#heading=h.f7k67ppnm94

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Snappy 16 implements the new "apps" yaml key which should give you the nice output you want.