[CSI] Community Software Installer 2.6.1 (OLD THREAD)

[Ger Teunis]

(12-07-2009 12:00 AM)consros Wrote:  Hi there,

I'm developer of KartinaTV plugin - http://code.google.com/p/pch-kartinatv/ - client of russian IP TV on PCH. I've recently seen the CSI and found that it's really good and easy to use. For a user. I want to use the CSI to install my plugin but I'm really confused.

In the example here - http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dch893...on=_latest - there is a huge appinit.cgi script included in distribution. I just CAN'T believe that in order to install my small application I have to understand and edit this script. When all I need is to unzip my plugin somewhere (normally /share/kartina.tv but can be also /share/AppInfo/whatever) and to set a link on local web service. It would be also nice to chmod my settings file and to write authentication info there, but it's not required.

Could somebody please give me a hand here or give a small plain example of already working installation? Imagine that you have a single php file, with single call to phpinfo() and nothing else. How would you install it? webui and gayaui are both provided and the same and pointing to this file in this case, no daemon/cron entry is required.

The RepositoryInfo.xml file and the appinfo.json I suppose I will be able to write by myself.

Thanks in advance!
Regards,
consros

It's not required for you to distribute the appinit.
AppInit is part of CSI, which will integrate CSI onto your NMT. No need for you to start tinkering into that file.
Distributing that file is just an option if you want to offer your users a non-csi way of installing so in your case not required.

Creating a package is a matter of a few simple steps I've send you a PM so we can whip up a package for your application in no time. It's not hard.