André Wyrwa wrote:
Hei,
So how does this work with OOo?
OOo has versions with or without JRE for Windows, (and of course
english and other
languages, but more on that later on)
OOo has versions in RPM and DEB format for Linux (and some with JRE,
some without)
OOo has versions for MacIntel, MacPPC, (all without JRE)
OOo has versions for other systems as well.
I still don't see the big difference between OOo and Mozilla in that
regard. The only one i can see is JRE and that can be tested for like
anything else.
So how would you guess a default for OOo?
Default to english and still start the download? Bad, bad, bad for
non-english users...
Detect language from the html agent.
Default to version with JRE? Bad, bad, bad when the nl-community is
not QA'ing the version
Detect Java plugin presence.
of OOo that has JRE included, doesn't build versions with JRE at all
(AFAIK only Sun does
build versions with JRE)
For Mac, what version would you default to? PPC or Intel? Probably
Intel. But since QA is
limited for Mac and not all languages go through the official
QA-Process, how would you
handle this?
Set up an infrastructure to mark QA'd packages and have them appear in
dedicated places...build a servlet to probe for available
packages...
this one might not be doable. I don't think we have "rights" for servlet
scripting through Collabnet. If all downloads were routed somewhere
else...yes, I guess.
have that scriptlet spit out a JavaScript to probe for users
environment, pick the right download and inform the user about what he
gets.
Native-language versions in general: How would you deal with different
versions being
QA'd / approved at different points in time?
Offer latest native language version AND latest english version, if
newer. Inform user.
In any case, always offer an option to unguided choice.
I /still/ don't see a one-click solution, and honestly I still don't
see what is wrong when
the user has to do two clicks. Is the user really that dumb so that
she doesn't know what
operating system she runs?
I guess the question here is not if the user is dumb, but if you want
them to try OOo or if they want to try OOo.
André.
LOTS of JS scripting but all do-able if we want to pursue this.
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