Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??
Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??
- Subject: Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:59:48 -0500
On Nov 2, 2006, at 12:30 PM, leenoori wrote:
El 2/11/2006, a las 17:25, Laurence Harris escribió:
FWIW, this reminds me of one of my pet peeves about Mac OS X
software, which is that almost all bundled software installs all
available language resources. Wouldn't it be smarter and use less
disk space to only distribute the languages a user wants?
Disk space and bandwidth are cheap. All-inclusive bundles have the
advantage of being prepare-once,
If you have the resources of a professional translation house or in-
house department, then you can get everything you need on a schedule
you dictate. If you rely on individual translators you occasionally
have to wait for one or more of them. One of the benefits I've
enjoyed from providing separate builds is that I never have to hold
up the release of one language (typically English) just because a
translator hasn't delivered his translation. I've found that this can
even occur with professional translators who have been doing this for
years.
deploy-anywhere, and are useful for the same reasons that Universal
Binaries are (fewer support queries, less confusion about which
version to download, less cluttered download pages etc).
I don't think in all the years I've been providing separate language
versions that I've ever had a single support issue arising from the
practice. Even the least technically savvy people seem to know what
language they speak. ;-)
Larry _______________________________________________
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