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# Intro

Snapcraft allows easy crafting of packages for Snappy Ubuntu. It makes it

easy to incorporate components from different sources like GitHub, Launchpad,

or npm.

easy to incorporate components from different sources and build technologies or

solutions.

# Snappy

# Key concepts

A `.snap` package for the Ubuntu Core system contains all its

dependencies. This has a couple of advantages over traditional deb or

rpm based dependency handling, the most important being that a

dependencies. This has a couple of advantages over traditional `deb` or

`rpm` based dependency handling, the most important being that a

developer can always be assured that there are no regressions triggered by

changes to the system underneath their app.

build other parts. Each part is managed by a snapcraft plugin and parts

are usually independent of each other.

## Plugins

## Type of a Part

Snapcraft plugins are written in Python and have a yaml

description. A lot of default plugins are included, for example for

projects written in Go, Java, Python or C. It is also possible

to simply download binary content as part of the snapcraft recipe.

Each part has a `type` associated to it, this `type` provides the mechanism

to handle it. The `type` a part has is extendable through plugins, there are

a variety of plugins already included for python 2 and 3, go, java, and cmake or

autotools based projects.

## Lifecycle