Re: File locations on product media

["D. Michael McIntyre" <michael -dot- mcintyre -at- rosegardenmusic -dot- com>]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 6:11 am, Andy McAleer wrote:
> Does anyone have any knowledge of -- or, failing that, interest in :-)

> so-called "localized" folders (containing docs called readme.html in
> \en, \fr, etc). In my mind, avoiding lots of localized files with
> individual names in the root folder is probably a good thing, but I
> could be persuaded otherwise...

No knowledge of best practices, but I'd really favor the model with localized 
files in a top level directory, and individual files contained within 
subdirectories off of that.  I've seen this model on commercial CDs, but I 
can't locate any commercial CDs that exhibit this pattern at the moment.  
(But then being a Linux guy, I have less than a handful of commercial 
software CDs.)

In the absence of proof, I'll just go with my instincts.  Instincts say 
something like

    LANG/DE/ LANG/EN/ LANG/ES/ LANG/FR/

is typical, or if not typical, a really good idea.

FWIW.
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