Spread Plus is a fork of Spread created to serve as a development and experimentation ground for new ideas, features, and improvements that may later be proposed for inclusion in the upstream Spread project.
While remaining fully compatible with existing Spread configurations, Spread Plus aims to enhance the developer experience in several key areas: . Improved debugging capabilities, offering more detailed logs, better traceability, and clearer failure reporting to simplify test analysis and issue resolution. . Enhanced CI integration, making it easier to connect Spread with modern continuous integration systems and automate complex testing pipelines. . Expanded backend availability, enabling tests to be executed on a wider range of environments and targets, from virtualized systems to containerized and remote backends.
The primary goal of Spread Plus is to make the testing and validation workflow more transparent, reliable, and adaptable — without compromising compatibility with the original Spread framework. In practice, it acts as an innovation branch where new functionality is explored, validated, and refined before being proposed upstream.
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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.
On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The manual build process is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the prerequisites installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git
cd snapd
makepkg -si
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
If AppArmor is enabled in your system, enable the service which loads AppArmor profiles for snaps:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install spread-plus, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install spread-plus --beta
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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