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 > >> -- >> 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) > > > Cheers, Patrick -- Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.2) Xorg (1:7.7+24) - libcairo2 (1.18.4-1+rpt1 arm64) Window Maker (0.96.0-4) - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - Theme: AGNOSTEP - MUA: GNUMail (1.4.0)
