Re: Reading and writing PMSP file
Re: Reading and writing PMSP file
- Subject: Re: Reading and writing PMSP file
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:07:38 +0100
On mercredi, décembre 21, 2005, at 06:20 PM, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to read and write the PMSP file produced by PackageMaker.
Looking into it, you can see it is a binary file and somewhere close
to the beginning is a string: typedstream. I found some information
about typedstream, but the most promising is the code in GNU Objective
C.
That said, before I go and rip a bunch of code out of gcc, is there
any simple explanation on the PMSP file format? I figured out all
strings have length prepended, but there is much more that is > changing.
So, please let me know if you have any more information.
Also, (question for the apple guys) is there a problem with reverse
engineering pmsp file? Will it change anytime soon?
While your best solution is to go with the command line tool, some
notes:
There are already 2 versions of PackageMaker files. One using
Archiving, the other using Key Archiving.
The most recent one is not very difficult to read even though the keys
have been strangely chosen considering that there were nice string
constants for these in the Info.plist file for instance.
The Key-Archiving version is being extended between releases of Package
Maker. For instance, the latest version introduced support for
Requirements and Token Definitions AFAIK.
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