Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 05:40:12PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: >> Nicolas Williams wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:47:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: >>>> Having an OS support more than one-language on a single medium is fairly >>>> common, and the cost of maintaining per-language media is likely to be >>>> prohibitive. That's probably why most vendors have adopted a "Language >>>> Pack" approach from what I've seen. >>> Well, the cost of keeping install image size down is not zero either. >>> >>> Can the cost of each of the two possible activities be quantified, or >>> estimated? If it ever comes to where nothing else can be sacrificed but >>> the multitude of locales, then we'll know for sure which is cheaper :/ >> Either direction has to be proven as optimal, but my guess based on > > Has that been done?
Don't know. I'm just pointing out the observation that many software vendors have taken the language pack approach instead. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
