The "indexer" is
reapack-index. It's a tool for generating a single XML
index file understood by ReaPack out of the files and metadata. It is run automatically after each contribution on ReaTeam repos.
All (reapack-index) packages are plain text files with .ext, .theme and .data containing only metadata (
example).
ReaPack was not made to manage files outside of REAPER's resource path so it cannot manage VSTs such as MIDItoReaControlPath. Also MIDItoReaControlPath's
license doesn't allow redistribution...
@provides and @metapackage are indeed the tags to indicate what a package is made of. @provides is the list of files to include. @metapackage tell reapack-index not to include the current file (it's enabled by default for theme/ext/data).
https://github.com/cfillion/reapack-...ditional-files
I'll probably try porting ReaPack to Linux at some point... I haven't tried the REAPER alpha yet. (reapack-index does works on Linux though)
I clarified the parts in the docs about the file structure, @metapackage and --amend a little bit, thanks for beta-testing them!