Spread is a plesant way distribute full-system integration tests and similar tasks. A few simple and concrete concepts that are fun to play with and fix the exact piece missing in the puzzle. It's not Jenkins, it's not Travis, it's not a library, not a language, and it's not even specific to testing. It's a simple way to express what to run and where, what to do before and after it runs, and how to duplicate jobs with minor variations without copy & paste.
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open Terminal from the Applications launcher and type the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install spread-mir-ci, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install spread-mir-ci
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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