Subject: Re: Fruits of the [Grocery Store]
From: Alan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 05:56:04 CDT
Tim Schmidt wrote:
>
> Attached is a -very- early version of the file-system layout spec for the
> [Grocery Store] Marketing Project CDs. Not all files are listed yet, I just
> wanted to generate a little discussion on some of the issues involving
> ease-of-installation, Mac compatability (do Macs understand ISO 9660 Mode
> 1?), and a little readme for the Linux RPMs.
>
> I will incorporate all feedback, and ramp up versions rapidly. I expect
> this document to grow to be at least 20 pages (although I will try to keep
> it as compact as possible while conveying the needed information).
From the document:
> Since there is only one Win32 version of AbiWord, I think that it should be automatically
i disagree, there are at least 2 versions. dont forget the bidi
version. And the installer is currently only available in English which
is not ideal (im not volunteering to do the localisation just yet, but i
think NSIS provides a mechanism for localisation).
A cd would require a more complete installer than we currently have,
offering bidi and non bidi builds, language packs, all available
documentation and all stable plugins (and anything else available).
perhaps you should add an XP directory to your list, for all the cross
platform items. it would be possible to write a windows installer that
did not contain the help docs and clipart etc, but merely copied them
from elsewhere on the disc (and this would be fair bit of effort to save
you a mere 1MB).
i assume you have used the previous CD issued by Abisource as some sort
of a guidline?
http://www.abisource.com/pr_07.phtml
there used to be a picture somewhere on the site, but i dont see it
anymore.
Linux
>extremely inexperienced users
i technically fall into this camp, but largely because im unashamedly
lazy. I definately dont want to have to hunting for any dependancies,
all reasonable efforts should be made to include the necessary libraries
on the CD. I know that with online distribution this is not considered
the develepors problem, but when you get a CD you dont expect to go
download librarys off the internet.
I think completeness is more important than size, perhaps when the
complete collection is ready to be made into an iso image it may be
worth slimming it down 10-20 MB to fit on 1/2 size or credit card size
CDs, but until its finished i think you should assume that a CD is 650MB
and not really even think about it.
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