site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Am I wasting my time trying to do this sort of thing with Apple Installer, or is it possible? * If you have multiple localizations, why wouldn't you install them all? Reason 1: Why you should not: Reason 2: The localization files are big. Why you should not care: So this removes the "optimization" reason before the installation. Now, let's talk about the optimization after the installation. _______________________________________________ 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... You are probably wasting your time and your users' time too for the following reason: You want the user to be able to select the language he/she wants to install. 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? 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. 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). This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com