The deb packages provided by the sublime-text-3 has an alias subl, we need that as its what people are familiar with.
Also note that the upstream only has a single entry point subl they dont have sublime-text-3 that we currently have. Is there a way we can omit the current name completely and only provide subl ?
+1 to grant the alias. ‘subl’ isn’t a command used in the Ubuntu archive and well-known within the sublime text community.
As for removing ‘sublime-text-3’, not without renaming the snap name to ‘subl’. If the alias is automatic, I don’t see this as a problem in practice. If it is a problem in practice, you can create a wrapper that detects if it was called as sublime-text-3 and tell the users to call it as ‘subl’ (again, I don’t see why this would be needed).
Nobody will look for subl. The snap ought to be called sublime-text. The rest can be done with tracks as we discussed on IRC (track for the old 2 series, latest for the current 3 series)
We have 2 votes from reviewers and 1 community vote for this, so ping me (use ‘@jdstrand’ in this topic) when the snap is in the store and I can process the alias.