site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com 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:darkmatter@freeuk.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com