Making Standard Packages - Standard Computers

The Standard System supports creating Standard Packages. Standard Packages are apps that can contain your own standards and standard code.

Building the Package

Create a folder with your app name

Let’s use ‘Hello World’ as an example

Add a config.conf

The config.conf should be in the main app folder, do not nest. Add a package name property. The package name cannot contain numbers or whitespace.

package: helloworld

Add Standards

You may add standards to your Standard Package. If you do, create a folder standardsin the primary app folder and add individual .stds files for each standard or use the installed system standards.

Add Code

Add any .std files or other folders containing .std files as the code of your package.

Pack and Import

To pack your app, zip the app folder and rename to change the extension to .spk instead of .zip. Then, in the Standard System CLI run the pack command.

pack "/path/to/Hello World.spk"

The system unpacks the bundle, reads the package name from config.conf, and installs it under the local package store at .store/spks/. If the package name already exists, Standard prompts before overwriting it.

Run

Run the package by package name.

run helloworld

You can also run it by the installed folder identifier if you know the folder name under .store/spks/.

Start Key

Packages are read, checked, and ran in alphabetical order for file name. To indicate where you’d like your app to start, use a ^. In the example below, the main.std will be ran first as it contains the start key, even though auto.std comes before main.std.

main.std

^
print "Hello"
in name "What's your name?"
print ("Hello ".name."!")

auto.std

print "Got here second"

So for a large package, you may have a file that contains functions and a file that performs the operations.

helper.std

myFunc: name {
	print ("hello ".name."!")
}

start.std

^
print "Hello"
in name "What's your name?"

#Now use function from helper.std
print myFunc: name

Output

Hello
What's your name? [John Doe]
Hello John Doe!

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​Start Key

Building the Package

Start Key