| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 700 at 2013-06-08.

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Tools.Standalone.pmar_install

# Class Tools.Standalone.pmar_install

Description

  a prototype installer for prepackaged modules

  note: portions of this code are highly inefficient (wrt tar filehandling). we assume that this will be used infrequently enough that this is not going to be a problem.

  a package file is a tar file that contains the following structure:

  ROOTDIR/ METADATA.TXT a file containing metadata about the package format: KEY=value, where values include: PLATFORM, in the form of os/processor (either can be "any") MODULE, the name of the module, in Module.Submodule format. VERSION, the version of this module. MODULE/ any files that need to be installed in the module directory MODREF/ ??? documentation suitable for inclusion in the modref INCLUDE/ ??? any pike language include files to be installed SCRIPTS/ standalone (no bundled dependencies) scripts used to perform custom actions they receive the installer object (this) and the System.Filesystem object of the package archive as arguments to the constructor. The method "run()" should perform the actual action. The run() method should return true or false to indicate success or failure. preinstall.pike postinstall.pike