Re: Installer.app and pkg

Hi Greg,

Thank you for this answer. 

On 2025-11-23 14:40:20 +0100 Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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> 
> 
> 

Cheers,
Patrick

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