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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!hd0258!gvh
- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: Packages
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.195928.2242@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <BszHrA.143@oceania.com>
- Distribution: na
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:59:28 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <BszHrA.143@oceania.com> john@oceania.com (John Robison)
- writes:
- > Kevin Sapp writes
- > >
- > > How does one create a file package from an app?
- > >
- > NeXT provides this info in the 2.0 Release Notes section on installer.
- > (NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/Notes/Installer.rtf)
- > You need 2.0 to use the Installer packages.
- >
- > > Once it is created is there any trick to the open/save panels
- > recognizing
- > > it as a package and not a plain directory?
- > >
- > No, the installer does this for you.
- > Double-click are you are off and running.
- >
- > Aside:
- > Packages are extremely helpful for distribution of software. This
- > is especially true if you are distributing muitl-volume floppys -
- > and "mere mortal" users. If you read the Installer carefully,
- > everything you need to know for packages is in there. Installer was a
- > great invention from NeXT.
- >
-
- While everything you said is true, I'm assuming that Kevin was asking
- about "file backages", NOT "Installer packages". A file package is where a
- number of files are kept in a wrapper folder which is seen by the user as
- a single file (such as .app, .font, .pkg, etc.). I too have been wonderinh
- how to extend this to custom packages, with the same characteristics that
- Kevin asks about.
-
- Gordon
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