site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com 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: Other point to take into consideration: - select all the localizations by default - allow the user to _unselect_ them in Customized mode. _______________________________________________ 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 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. . 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: This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com