For more information about RAPPS, please take a look at the wiki
Each program entry consists of a text file formatted with an INI-like syntax.
They must be encoded in UTF-8 without BOM (Byte Order Mask) in this repository.
However, when you are testing a new entry file with RAPPS in ReactOS or Windows, they are stored in UTF-16 LE (Little Endian) encoding in the rapps folder on disk - otherwise characters out of the ANSI range will display broken.
Note: some editors like Notepad++ call this format UCS-2 Little Endian.
Each [Section] is language-independent and individual, you can override the URL to a source program or any other field by adding a language-specific [Section.], followed by the language code.
Note: You can find a complete listing of LCIDs and language names on MSDN, includes neutral codes:
RAPPS also accepts neutral language codes, meaning that you can do things like this:
; Default English fallback, used if everything else fails.
[Section]
Name = Name in English
; Neutral Spanish, used if the specific variant of Spanish does not match.
[Section.0a]
Name = Name in Generic Spanish
; Spanish from Spain, used if the system is configured for it.
[Section.0c0a]
Name = Name in Castilian Spanish
You can also define an entry without English fallback to make it visible to certain users only. For instance; software from 1C, which is mostly for Russian speakers and unusable for anyone else.
For a complete file format overview see the File Schema on the ReactOS wiki
The mandatory fields are: Name, Category, URLDownload and SizeBytes. All other fields are completely optional and can be skipped.
List of valid categories:
- Audio
- Video
- Graphics
- Games
- Internet
- Office
- Development
- Edutainment
- Engineering
- Finance
- Science
- Tools
- Drivers
- Libraries
- Themes
- Other
The official list of downloadable programs is kept on a public ReactOS server and synced every time RAPPS is launched for the first time.