Given the recent news regarding FW 5.6.x, and to scratch an itch than had been bothering me for a while, here comes the MobileRead Package Installer!
What Does It Do?:
This is a KUAL extension, that will plug into the Helper menu a single Install MR Packages button.
Notice the plural, we'll come back to that later :).
This provides an alternate to the good old Update Your Kindle UI to install the various packages offered on MR in the form of update packages (.bin).
It supports the full range of devices able to run KUAL.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Besides trying to avoid the evil tendencies of FW >= 5.6.x, it provides a few interesting (for us) advantages:
• You can automatically chain multiple update packages (and it handles a basic dependency chain, prioritizing low-level stuff [jb, usbnet, python])
• On FW 5.x, it doesn't force a full reboot on you (something that the vast majority of our packages don't need) [it also doesn't kill USBNet].
In short, it's noticeably more efficient ;).
Latest Updates (11/15/2014):
Initial release (1.0.N)
INSTALL:
USAGE:
FAQs:
ChangeLog:
What Does It Do?:
This is a KUAL extension, that will plug into the Helper menu a single Install MR Packages button.
Notice the plural, we'll come back to that later :).
This provides an alternate to the good old Update Your Kindle UI to install the various packages offered on MR in the form of update packages (.bin).
It supports the full range of devices able to run KUAL.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Besides trying to avoid the evil tendencies of FW >= 5.6.x, it provides a few interesting (for us) advantages:
• You can automatically chain multiple update packages (and it handles a basic dependency chain, prioritizing low-level stuff [jb, usbnet, python])
• On FW 5.x, it doesn't force a full reboot on you (something that the vast majority of our packages don't need) [it also doesn't kill USBNet].
In short, it's noticeably more efficient ;).
Latest Updates (11/15/2014):
Initial release (1.0.N)
INSTALL:
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USAGE:
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FAQs:
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ChangeLog:
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