From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 19:48:02 EST
--- "Kenneth J. Davis" <jeremyd@computer.org> wrote:
> Did some reworking so there are almost no hard coded
> strings,
> this includes section titles, section descriptions,
> etc. (about 55)
> (about 3 left in some macros for errors downloading
> dictionaries
> and all the strings in the NSIS plugins).
> There are several defines that can be set (the
> current setup matches
> the previous NSIS 1 setup, but that will change
> soon) to enable/
> disable all downloadable components, the list of
> dictionaries
> (which are added to the archive if NODOWNLOADS is
> set, otherwise downloaded
> during install), (for the future) optional inclusion
> of plugins, whether
> the installer executable portion is compressed with
> upx, whether a CRT DLL
> is included (or downloadable), and determining if
> the Modern UI should
> be used or current classic (note: multi language is
> only supported
> with the use of the Modern UI [not because NSIS
> doesn't support it, but
> because it already has all the NSIS specific stuff
> translated]).
>
> The last step needed for the multi-language
> installer is to place the
> strings into another file (and hopefully eventually
> get them translated)
> and write a script that generates a NSIS specific
> file with all the strings
> (using the English as a fallback).
>
> For the time being (until I get around to some
> Makefile work) most
> of these settings will only work if you manually run
> a locally installed
> NSIS (plus the untgz plugin 1.0.3 or later).
Hi Jeremy. I'm really impressed with the NSIS work
you've been doing.
One thing struck me when I was looking at it recently.
Now that it nicely supports multiple languages, I'm
wondering why en-US spelling is semi-hardcoded. It
always struck me that the only real reason we shipped
with en-US only and made the others optional was
because it was too much work to make and maintain
other
versions. Now it looks like you've actually done this
work I think it would be a good idea for the installer
to automatically tick only the user's language and
treat English (US and British) just like any other
language. Or maybe I'm missing something (:
Andrew Dunbar.
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