Convert click manifest to package.yaml automatically

[Daniel Holbach]

According to Michael snappy knows a lot about click manifest and the package.yaml, so it could be easy to add functionality to allow

 snappy build package

to convert an existing manifest into the relevant package.yaml, if it doesn't exist already.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

I thin that the role of building a snap from a click package source fits more in snapcraft. Moving there so Sergio and Kyle can comment.

The idea is also to get rid of snappy build and rely only on snapcraft to build snaps.

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

One comment, `package.yaml` doesn't exist anymore.

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

Second comment, there is no such thing as a framework in the sense that click had one. Maybe with interfaces something similar might be achieved.

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

Third comment, click has many hooks that don't exist in snappy, ergo those need to be developed first for which I'm re-adding snappy

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

I'm not sure how you intend us to accomplish this so I mark it incomplete

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This came up in a conversation on the phone ten months ago. Maybe snappy has moved on too much since then and it's not possible any more. I CCed mvo on the bug - maybe he has some ideas for this... if not, let's move on and close the bug. Maybe a tutorial on how to move your phone app to a snap will be the better solution.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Snapcraft because there has been no activity for 60 days.]