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 > > -- > Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.2) > Xorg (1:7.7+24) - libcairo2 (1.18.4-1+rpt1 arm64) > Window Maker (0.96.0) - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - Theme: AGNOSTEP > - MUA: GNUMail (1.4.0) > > > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / Black Lotus, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron https://www.openhub.net/languages/objective_c https://www.gofundme.com/f/cacao-linux-a-gnustep-reference-implementation
