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07/24/2011, 03:18 PM
#260
 Originally Posted by mpcollins
@ChasT: '... far too complicated'. Possibly, however I can't 'just do' what I have no inkling of. Let me see if I can explain. As I have said before in a previous post, I am a mainframer, not a web/server developer. So far, I know C#, barely. I have been referring to Java when it's probably JavaScript. And so on. You guys are brain surgeons (web developers) vs my heart surgery (COBOL mainframe). We know each others basic work but not their particulars.
One reason that I am not understanding this ipk packager stuff is that I don't understand what is supposed to be accomplished with it. I reviewed the page that I downloaded it from but it doesn't have much of explanation of it's use. When I try to 'open' it as you said, I am only able to 'open' the zipped file. Ok, so when I 'open' it, I find nothing that compiles/builds/whatever within it. Since I don't know what I am supposed to be accomplishing, I am not able to work towards that. Am I supposed to be unzipping/untarring, dragging my built folder and then re-zipping/tarring? Then what? Am I unzipping and then dragging that folder to my device? I understand that I don't drag my newly built ROM folder onto my device, or I wouldn't need the packager. When I investigate the ClassicROMContainer, I understand that one, and I am assuming that it will eventually reside on my device. I am not seeing that structure on my device, probably because it didn't install nor run properly.
Should I be asking these questions of others? I know that there are at least a couple of others who have asked questions on the forum that just don't understand what is being asked because they don't do that kind of surgery, if any surgery at all outside of alcohol and band-aids (non-programmers). Should we be asking our questions of others that are willing to teach us how to do your type of surgery?
Thanks ....
Monica
All the ipk packager does, is take the folder , with all the subfolders, that you created, and zip them up into a format that the phone understands (which the end result is a file with the extension ipk)
-- Sent from my Palm Pre using Forums
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