Per-app MSI-based installers

[John Layt]

On 2 July 2014 15:21, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Note also that oxygen-icons by itself is 35MB, which is larger than the
> package with all the libraries (at least so far; I'm still growing it).

Do we need to ship all of Oxygen though? Can we also split it up?
Only ship in the base install those common actions used in Frameworks,
and package the rest either as an add-on package or package them in
with the app that needs them?  Can we remove some sizes that won' get
used on Windows?  Split packages by size perhaps?

Other areas you'll need to think about are localization, spelling
dictionaries, etc.  Do we package all the translations with the app,
or download separately? Do we somehow let users pick their
dictionaries to install, or just download them all?  KHotNewStuff may
be useful here.  And that sort of touches on another topic: System
Settings.  Do we install that, or just ensure all settings needed are
accessible via the Help menu?

John.