I am the creator of the old TrackerBase system for BeOS. I no longer use BeOS/Haiku, but I would like to have a look at my old source code and possibly publish it for posterity. Looks like back in the day I packaged it as a BeOS .pkg file and didn’t save the source. I now use MacOS and can’t seem to open the .pkg file on the Mac. Is there a trick for doing this?
If not, can I ask a current BeOS/Haiku user to unpack that file and provide the source code as a tarball or zip? I’m sure it’ll be embarrassing to look back on, code-quality-wise, but would like to have a look. You can download the .pkg from the link above.
Thanks much!
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We have a tool for installing pkg files, https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/apps/packageinstaller but it isn’t designed to run outside Haiku.
I’ll have a look when I’m back from work, if no one else takes care of it during the day.
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Hi Scot, long time no see! 
I uploaded a zipped version at https://linx.li/trackerbase.zip
If you find more old .pkg to unpack, or want to give Haiku a spin, Haiku should run in Parallels Desktop and comes with a “LegacyPackageInstaller”. It does take some querying to find those spread around files though… I hope I got it all (just “apps” and “bin”).
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@humdinger Fantastic, thanks so much! Got it. Yep, as expected, it’s embarassing to look back on. Perl, ye gods!
Much appreciated, cheers. I’ll put this up on github this weekend.
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TrackerBase is now published here. Thanks again!
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Thanks for saving your “antique BeOS perl system” for posterity.