Diego Gomez Deck <DiegoGomezDeck at ConsultAr.com> wrote:
[SNIP]
> > Where will the translations end up? Will they be added to the image or 
> > will
> > people (who so not now english!) need to start the PackageLoader and 
> > load
> > the translation? This is not an option. 
> 
> The full image, imho, has to be full multi-language.

Well, IMHO languages should be packages - as EVERYTHING eventually will
be.
Then sure, we can have a multiLangSuperFull image distro if that is
interesting, but we can also very easily do the following:

1. Add a very prominent menu/button that simply selects language and
then downloads/installs it using SM2. Or even detects the preferred
language from the OS on startup and downloads/installs it.

2. And also note that the above *doesn't need a net connection* because
SM2 has a proper client cache - we can include the cache (in selected
parts or even full) in the zip-file you download when you download
Squeak.

This is btw the distributed format that I am aiming at - a small kernel
image (that is getting smaller and smaller when we manage to detangle
more and more) + the "sm" directory tree which includes a cache.

Exactly what you want to have in the cache is of course completely up to
debate. :)

regards, Göran