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.
