1 For more information about RAPPS, take a look at <https://reactos.org/wiki/RAPPS>
3 ADDING DOWNLOADABLE PROGRAMS TO THE RAPPS DATABASE
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6 Each program entry consists of a text file formatted with an INI-like syntax.
8 They must be encoded in UTF-16 LE (Little Endian) or characters out of the ANSI range
9 will display broken mojibake, some editors like Notepad++ call this format UCS-2 Little Endian.
11 If you plan on including your program entry in the ReactOS source code versioning keep in mind
12 that entries are stored in UTF-8 without BOM (Byte Order Mask) for VCS friendliness.
14 They get automatically converted to UTF-16 when creating the compressed rappmgr.cab package,
15 which is how clients obtain their program lists every time a Database upgrade is triggered.
17 Also, each [Section] is language-independent and individual, you can override the URL to a source
18 program or any other field by adding a language-specific [Section.], followed by the language code.
20 NOTE: You can find a complete listing of LCIDs and language names here, includes neutral codes:
21 <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd318693%28v=vs.85%29.aspx>
23 Now RAPPS also accepts neutral language codes, meaning that you can do things like this:
25 ; Default English fallback, used if everything else fails.
27 Name = Name in English
29 ; Neutral Spanish, used if the specific variant of Spanish does not match.
31 Name = Name in Generic Spanish
33 ; Spanish from Spain, used if the system is configured for it.
35 Name = Name in Castilian Spanish
38 You can also define an entry without English fallback to make it visible to certain users only.
39 For instance; software from 1C, which is mostly for Russian speakers and unusable for anyone else.
43 ; This is a INI-style comment, useful for adding additional information.
44 ; Lines starting with a ; character are skipped by the parser.
47 Name = My fun stuff-o-matic
48 RegName = Name in Registry
51 Description = Shortish description giving some additional background information about what it does.
54 URLSite = https://example.org/
55 URLDownload = https://ftp.example.org/pub/installer.exe
57 [Section.0419] ; 0419 - for Russian language
58 Description = Description in Russian language
62 The mandatory fields are: Name, Category and URLDownload
63 All other fields are completely optional and can be skipped.
65 List of valid categories:
83 The official list of downloadable programs is kept on a public ReactOS server
84 and synced every time RAPPS is launched for the first time.
86 NOTE: You can find the most current URL in rapps.h, defined as APPLICATION_DATABASE_URL.
88 To generate a RAPPS database (usually a rappmgr.cab/rappmgr2.cab archive), use
91 For Windows & other NT-derived: CreateCabFile.bat
92 For Linux & other UNIX flavors: CreateCabFile.sh
95 Once the rappmgr.cab is downloaded to the user's local %AppData%\RApps, RAPPS extracts it
96 using cabinet.dll inside %AppData%\RApps\appdb. After that, it will parse all the *.txt
97 files contained therein.
99 Every subsequent time, the program tries to access the local .txt files
100 until a database update is manually triggered by the user.
102 If the rappmgr.cab file is moved or just missing, RAPPS will download it again.