Re: Re[2]: How to make my installer...
Re: Re[2]: How to make my installer...
- Subject: Re: Re[2]: How to make my installer...
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:14:57 +0100
On dimanche, octobre 30, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Peter Mulholland wrote:
[...]
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.
Since you are not sold by the previous arguments, maybe another one:
How do you plan to update your software if you need to?
If you have all localizations installed:
- you don't have to worry about just providing the update with the
appropriate localization and finding and checking which one is
installed and providing as many updates as available localizations.
- you can't have the funny situation of someone who updated one
localization and then later installed just another localization from
the original CD.
Other point to take into consideration:
. Maybe it's possible to do this with distribution script but on
Panther and earlier, I don't think you can run the installer in
Customized mode by default. So this means that most of your users are
going to install the package with the standard mode.
So if you are not able to figure out exactly which localization they
want, you may end up installing the wrong localization in some cases.
Let's take the stupid example of myself. I'm a froggy but I'm running
the OS in English and playing games in French when available. Since the
OS is running in English, you may be able to figure out that I'm
running in English, so you will install the English localization. Yet,
what I wanted was the French one => Problem.
If you want to provide localizations separately, then do it the OS X
Install CD way:
- select all the localizations by default
- allow the user to _unselect_ them in Customized mode.
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