Re: Installer.app and pkg

Hey Patrick,

I'm the original author of Installer.app.  At the moment it is unfinished.
If you would like to pick it up that is absolutely fine with me.  I simply
made it take .pkg because I wasn't sure what format we would ultimately
use.  If you feel like changing it, do so.  I would love to see the app
finished as it was one of my first many years ago.

So to answer your questions:

1. Yes, it was... we could try to implement a format for GS, or we could
use any one we wish or support multiple.

2. I think that is an interesting idea.  I would love to see that.

Yours, GC

On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM Patrick Cardona <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The document expected for the app Installer (see
> gap/system-apps/Installer) is 'pkg'.
> I found this documentation:
>
> Flat Package Format - The missing documentation
> http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Ivanhoe/FLAT.html
>
> So I have two questions:
>
> 1) Is this 'pkg' format intended to be used only on MacOS? Or could we
> try to implement it with GNUstep?
>
> 2) If the answer is yes, could we envisage to provide universal
> packages (I mean bundles with all the needed binaries for arm64,
> amd64...) thanks to such a way to install GNUstep apps?
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
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