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Packaging Product Components

After breaking down a product into distinct components (such as applications, frameworks, fonts, documentation, and so on), you create an installation package for each of the product’s components. An installation package is a file package that contains one component and information about the package and its payload. See “What Is a Package?” for more information about packages.

The Installer application can open a package and place its payload on a user’s system. Installation packages whose payload is a component of a multicomponent product are known as component packages.

To create a component package, you perform the following tasks:

1. Categorize the component.

2. Create the component package project directory.

3. Add the component files to the project directory.

4. Add executables to the project directory if the component requires them.

5. Create the component package.

6. Test the component package.

The following sections describe these tasks in detail.

Contents:

Categorize the Component
Create the Component Package Project Directory
Add the Component Files to the Package Project Directory
Add Executable Files to the Package Project Directory
Create the Component Package
Test the Component Package

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