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- SmartPackage 1.00 Alpha for NEXTSTEP 3.x
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-
- SmartPackage is intended to let you produce distribution packages usable by
- Installer but using gzip for better compression ratios. This is made by using
- two new scripts, smartpackage and smartchunkpackage to do the packaging and the
- multi-volume packaging. These scripts have command-line arguments compatible
- with the Installer ones.
-
- The SmartInstaller-produced packages can be installed with Installer as the
- regular ones, by double-clicking on them. You can even---at the cost of some
- disk space--- generate multiple-volumes packages that can be installed from any
- of the disks.
-
- This is the first alpha release of SmartPackage. It is not as complete as I
- wish it should be, but I would like to get some feedback about it before a real
- release is done.
-
- SmartPackage is written by Yves Arrouye <Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr>
-
- The idea for this came from Alberto Ricart <alberto@smartsoft.com> which did a
- good job of manually generating single-volume archives using funzip by Mark
- Adler.
-
- Contents
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-
- This directory contains full source, and a pre-compiled release for NEXTSTEP
- running on m68k and i386 machines.
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- Go into the SmartPackage subdirectory, choose an INSTALLDIR directory in the
- Makefile and type
-
- make install
-
- You can then use the scripts from your install directory.
-
- Documentation
- -------------
-
- Read the NOTES and SUGGESTIONS file (this one may be completed by you and
- emailed back to me), and read the comments at the top of the smartpackage and
- smartchunkpackage scripts. This files are in the SmartPackage directory.
-
-
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