Re: How to make my installer...
Re: How to make my installer...
- Subject: Re: How to make my installer...
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:48:02 +0100
Am I wasting my time trying to do this sort of thing with Apple
Installer, or is it possible?
You are probably wasting your time and your users' time too for the
following reason:
* If you have multiple localizations, why wouldn't you install them all?
Reason 1:
You want the user to be able to select the language he/she wants to
install.
Why you should not:
Mac OS X is a multi-everything operating system. This everything
includes International which means that you can one user using the OS
in English, the other in Japanese, etc... So why should only one
language be installed when you are supporting many?
Reason 2:
The localization files are big.
Why you should not care:
If the localization files are big, and if you let the user select the
one he/she wants, this means that all of them are available to be
installed.
This implies that if the user had to download your installer, he/she
would download all the localizations anyway.
So this removes the "optimization" reason before the installation.
Now, let's talk about the optimization after the installation.
Let's say your localizations are big, do you really think they are that
big when you compare them to the size of Hard disk todays and the
available space you need to have on your hard drive to run Mac OS X
without any issue (which is at least 1GB).
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