Relocation of Packager projects

In some cases, you may need to create the resulting package in an environment different from where the project was created, for example, on another machine or on the same computer with the placement of package files changed. In such scenario, it would be reasonable to reuse the existing project file rather than to create a new project from scratch. Packager can help you update the existing project so that all settings and properties you specified in it are retained.

Suppose that the package files were copied to (or built in) the new environment. Ideal case for packaging would be just copying the project file (.eit) to the new location and rebuilding the package in the batch mode. The problem, however, is that placement of the package files in the file system may be changed during relocation so the existing project cannot be reused directly.

Packager automatically detects if the project was relocated, and attempts to find all package files, using paths relative to the new placement of the project file. If some of the files are not found this way, Packager lets you either supply the files, or remove them from the project.

The following procedure helps you easily relocate an existing Packager project.

1. Copy the package files and the project file to the new environment. Try to keep the entire directory structure as is, so that relative paths from the project file to most of the package files remain unchanged.
2. Start Packager in the new environment and open the project file copied. Packager detects that the project was relocated and issues a warning. Click OK to display the Package files panel and check the package for completeness.
3. If any package files are marked as absent (have the icon ), fix them as follows:

   Enable the Show full path checkbox on the bottom pane to see where Packager expects to find the missing files. Then, either copy or move the files to the appropriate location or remove them from the project and add such files again from their present locations using the Filechooser pane on the right. Note that in the latter case file-specific settings, such as system properties (see ???) will be lost.

4. Go to the Finish page, specify the location of the resulting package in the new environment and click the Create! button. As the creation of the package finishes, the displayed information will contain instructions on how to build the package in the batch mode.