Re[2]: How to make my installer...
Re[2]: How to make my installer...
- Subject: Re[2]: How to make my installer...
- From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:44:14 +0000
- Resent-date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:44:25 -0800 (PST)
- Resent-from: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>
- Resent-message-id: <email@hidden>
Hello Stéphane,
Sunday, October 30, 2005, 7:48:02 PM, you wrote:
SS> You are probably wasting your time and your users' time too for the
SS> following reason:
SS> * If you have multiple localizations, why wouldn't you install them all?
SS> Reason 1:
SS> You want the user to be able to select the language he/she wants to
SS> install.
SS> Why you should not:
SS> Mac OS X is a multi-everything operating system. This everything
SS> includes International which means that you can one user using the OS
SS> in English, the other in Japanese, etc... So why should only one
SS> language be installed when you are supporting many?
This is not typically the case. Generally, a user will have set their
machine up in one language.
SS> Reason 2:
SS> The localization files are big.
~220MB per language
SS> Why you should not care:
SS> If the localization files are big, and if you let the user select the
SS> one he/she wants, this means that all of them are available to be
SS> installed.
SS> This implies that if the user had to download your installer, he/she
SS> would download all the localizations anyway.
The game is for commercial sale on CD
SS> So this removes the "optimization" reason before the installation.
SS> Now, let's talk about the optimization after the installation.
SS> Let's say your localizations are big, do you really think they are that
SS> big when you compare them to the size of Hard disk todays and the
SS> available space you need to have on your hard drive to run Mac OS X
SS> without any issue (which is at least 1GB).
This is an absolutely lousy attitude, and the reason that stuff is now
taking ~2G per install. Just because HD space is plentiful does not
mean that an app should act like some kind of digital gas that expands
to fill the available space.
Furthermore, you missed an important point. The game will not handle
more than one language being installed at once. While a large amount
of the files are identical per language, there are a whole set of them
that are different for each language. Adding multi-language support to
the game is pointless, as the end user will not want more than one
language.
--
Best regards,
Peter mailto:email@hidden
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