Supporting parallel installs on desktop (also, classic)

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I’m sat at the Snapcraft Summit with the developers of the Julia snap. It’s quite common for users of Julia to have multiple versions installed in parallel. It’s a classic snap - common for languages, and has a couple of desktop shortcuts. One for launching the documentation and one to launch Julia itself in a terminal.

What’s the plan of record to support classic desktop snaps in parallel install scenarios. We’ve had a few occasions where people would like to support this feature, especially where they have fast moving edge channels and more stable releases, which users desire having installed simultaneously.

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<inside joke> Hey, @popey, Have we met? I’m sat at one of those funky things, too.

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Have we even got a plan of record for side-by-side classic snaps?

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We will work on parallel installs for classic this cycle. Maybe @zyga-snapd can go into the technical details, its going to be a bit tricky because we need to put a minimal filesystem namespace around the classic snap.

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Same thing was brought up here: Simultaneous installs of same snap, different versions