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- Packager v1.1 July 31/92
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- Category: Programming and/or Publishing
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- This is an application for building packages suitable for installation using
- Installer.app. It provides a drag-n-drop environment for building the
- packages and overcomes several limitations of the conventional tools used for
- building packages.
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- An Installer package is a convenient means for packaging a large software
- system for distribution. When Next provided us with Installer.app (see the
- Librarian for details), they gave us a great way to automagically install
- pre-packaged software such as Mathematica, X windows, etc. Unfortunately, they
- did not also give us such great tools for building these packages. There are a
- few command line programs in the Installer.app folder which can be used to
- build Installer packages, but these programs are somewhat esoteric and limited
- in their usefulness.
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- Packager.app is an application for building these packages. It produces ".pkg"
- files which may subsequently be installed using Installer.app. A package is
- built by dragging files from the Workspace manager into the package window.
- Whereas the command line utilities can only be used to build a package from a
- single directory, and then all files in that directory go into the package,
- Packager can build a package from any arbitrary files in your system. When the
- package is installed by Installer.app, the setup of these files will exactly
- mimic your own system.
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- Somewhat detailed usage instructions are provided in UserGuide.rtfd. To
- install this software, drag the Packager.app icon into, for example, your
- ~/Apps directory or into /LocalApps is you happen to be lucky enough to have
- such permissions.
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- Written and maintained by Toby Paterson
- E-Mail: tpaterso@cs.ubc.ca or
- paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca
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- Land Mail: 2905 Marine Drive
- West Vancouver, B.C.,
- Canada V7V 1M2
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- The usual disclaimers about me not being held responsible for anything you
- manage to do to your system using this program, whether it is the fault of
- Packager or not, apply. ie. I can not be held responsible.
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- This software is free.
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