Issue 52: Enable translations of the windows installer
Status:  Accepted
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Project Member Reported by roberto.alsina, Feb 15, 2010
As suggested in  Issue 46 , the installer needs translations too.
Feb 15, 2010
Project Member #1 cyberkil...@gmail.com
Hmm... What installer engine is used? Did you think of using some kind of 
crossplatform installer like InstallJammer? (I know there are packages for Linux 
distributions, but you can never have them all, and an installer would help some 
ppl).

Anyway... how can I help on translating the installer?
Feb 17, 2010
Project Member #2 sh.yaron
Do you have any experience with translated NSI files (the installation system we are
talking about is NSIS)
Feb 17, 2010
Project Member #3 roberto.alsina
I have the NSIS installer kind of working so I am not starting again with installjammer, 
although anyone is free to try :-)
Feb 17, 2010
Project Member #4 cyberkil...@gmail.com
@2 nope, but I figure all is needed here is a text editor to translate some strings. 
Or am I wrong?
Feb 18, 2010
Project Member #5 sh.yaron
open the nsi file and see for yourself, there are no string!
Feb 19, 2010
Project Member #6 roberto.alsina
I am giving up on the windows installer, because I can't make it work on all machines (the 
damned vc_redist problem).

So, I'm disowning this issue, and hoping someone that knows about windows pakaging can 
help.
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Feb 20, 2010
Project Member #7 sh.yaron
Can someone else please check it?
I can't install NSIS at all... (unless there is a version that works on Ubuntu)
Feb 22, 2010
Project Member #8 sh.yaron
Please check out the following example of adding multiple languages to NSIS:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Examples/Modern%20UI/MultiLanguage.nsi
Feb 22, 2010
Project Member #9 roberto.alsina
Thanks for the link. I may spend some time on this tomorrow, but... there is a more 
pressing problem with the windows installer, in that it ony works for like 50% of the users 
because of problems with the visual studio runtime.
Feb 22, 2010
Project Member #10 sh.yaron
Are you compiling it using Visual Studio or mingw?
If you'll switch to mingw I don't think you'll have this problem
Feb 22, 2010
Project Member #11 roberto.alsina
I am using the official binaries that are made using Visual Studio.

I don't have the resources to rebuild everything with mingw (I have just a small windows 
VM)
Feb 22, 2010
Project Member #12 sh.yaron
The best IDEs for gcc compiling (to my opinion) are:
NetBeans, Eclipse, Code:Blocks, and Dev-C++/wxDev-C++ (wx is quite buggy, the other
one lacks many features in order to be a good IDE, Code:Blocks is much better,
NetBeans is one of the most professional IDEs i've ever seen, and Eclipse is very
heavy but relatively intuitive)
Feb 22, 2010
Project Member #13 cyberkil...@gmail.com
@6 why not just use a different installer? Try maybe installjammer.com - this 
shouldn't require visual studio libs (though it had some problems with non latin 
characters rendering a few versions back, I don't know if they fixed it yet).
Feb 23, 2010
Project Member #14 roberto.alsina
The visual studio libs are reuired because the official python and pyqt binaries are built 
using Visual Studio.
Feb 23, 2010
Project Member #15 cyberkil...@gmail.com
If I was on your place I wouldn't ship python along with Marave, but leave it to the 
user to install all the dependencies.
Feb 24, 2010
Project Member #16 roberto.alsina
@15, well, that would be just fine if I didn't want to have more than 5 Windows users ;-)