About:
CoolPackager is a program for developers which will allow users of your software to easily install your program. A CoolPackage is a self-extracting, and self-installing shell script. Creating a CoolPackage with CoolPackager only requires a .tar.gz and a simple installation script.

Author:
Sharp [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://cpkg.sourceforge.net
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cpkg/CPKG-0_7_0.tar.gz

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		1 - Planning (disabled category), 5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Software Development, Software Development :: Code Generators, System :: Archiving :: Packaging

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	0.7.0	29-Jun-2001	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development			GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] See also makeself
by LittleJohn - May 7th 2001 13:15:34

makeself (by Stephan Peter) does the same job and is IMHO more general :
the generated self extracting script understands a number of options as -info, -list, -lsm, -help, ...
checksums and optionnally md5 sums are checked automatically before extraction
Makeself is very simple and actively maintained (check out the CVS version)

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[»] Re: See also makeself
by Sharp - May 7th 2001 16:53:19

CoolPackager is basicly a project to teach me about C. CoolPackager 0.4.1 understands --help, --info, and --extract to a limit. Help obviously displays a short summary on how to use the package. --info displays information about CoolPackager, but this is changing as I am writing 1.0. --extract puts the archive into package.tar.gz if users don't want to use the install script. In these packages I am also trying to make it very easy package (for example) for people to right click a package in gmc and see infomation about it. Check out a package and see the "CoolTags". Version 1.0 will also let users send options to the install script. I am also thinking about an idea which will store package datestamps in a file. A package updating agent could look at this file, check the internet, and if a new update is available, download it. I'm not tring to reinvent the wheel, but if you like makeself, go ahead use it. Nobody's forcing you to use CoolPackager. I can understand where you are coming from. CoolPackager 0.4.1 is okay compared to makeself, but by version 1.0 I expect to have it better coded, and be very flexible and compatible.
> makeself (by Stephan Peter) does the
> same job and is IMHO more general :
> the generated self extracting script
> understands a number of options as
> -info, -list, -lsm, -help, ...
> checksums and optionnally md5 sums are
> checked automatically before
> extraction
> Makeself is very simple and actively
> maintained (check out the CVS version)
>

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