SmartPackage 1.00 Alpha for NEXTSTEP 3.x ---------------------------------------- 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 The idea for this came from Alberto Ricart which did a good job of manually generating single-volume archives using funzip by Mark Adler. Contents -------- 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.