Hi Cor, *, On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Cor Nouws <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > You'll probably be aware off the discussion around the packaging / > installation. This might influence the work that is needed in the end...
I don't thing that stuff will change for LInux and Mac - i.e. english full installer + languagepacks. I agree that it just doesn't make sense to have 150MB for each language (and that duplicated for the various variants, mac intel, mac ppc, linux deb x86, linux rpm x86, linux deb x86_64, linux rpm x86_64 wasting diskspace on the mirrors. 1GB per language (and per release) just is too much. Also installation of those systems is easy anyway, don't require an installation dialog. on linux you use something similar to "rpm -Uhv *rpm" to install both the main installer as well as the languagepack, on Mac you drag'n'drop the main installer to whatever location you want it to install to, and then lauch the languagepack installer, pick the installation location of the full installation (when there are multiple ones) and confirm, installation done. You don't need to switch locale in the options, since it will default to the language of the OS anyway, and only fall back to english if the languages don't match. On windows things might change (I also thing that the multi installers are bad in various ways, especially as it lacks help), but let's see how it turns out in the end. ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
