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Started by GOSPY4EVER, January 12, 2012, 12:54:20 PM

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GOSPY4EVER

Hi

Great Software - but what about other languanges? Some of the standard programs are language-independant like JAVA or Flashplayer. But some are different for every language. If you would maintain some additional XML-Files at http://patchmypc.net/documents/definitions.xml like definitions-DE.xml or definitions-FR.xml and the GUI would give you the option to set a preferred language, it would be perfect! Or let the user specify his own local definitions.xml file. So I could adjust the download links to my preferred langauge.

The definitions-DE.xml file would then look like

<DownoadSolution>
<!-- Links For Critical Update Downloads -->
<PMPCUpdateDownload>
http://patchmypc.net/updates/PatchMyPC/PatchMyPCUpdater.exe
</PMPCUpdateDownload>
<ReaderDownload>
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.2/de_DE/AdbeRdr1012_de_DE.exe
</ReaderDownload>
........


Thanks for your reply

Hans


Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC)

#1
Hey,

Thanks for the post. I do intend to eventually add XML definitions for other languages. That was one of the reasons I created a XML file so the download location could be changed. I would say German may be supported in PMPC 2.0.9 around March 1st. Could you list what products would be available in German you would like?

Justin,

Quote from: GOSPY4EVER on January 12, 2012, 12:54:20 PM
Hi

Great Software - but what about other languanges? Some of the standard programs are language-independant like JAVA or Flashplayer. But some are different for every language. If you would maintain some additional XML-Files at http://patchmypc.net/documents/definitions.xml like definitions-DE.xml or definitions-FR.xml and the GUI would give you the option to set a preferred language, it would be perfect! Or let the user specify his own local definitions.xml file. So I could adjust the download links to my preferred langauge.

The definitions-DE.xml file would then look like

<DownoadSolution>
<!-- Links For Critical Update Downloads -->
<PMPCUpdateDownload>
http://patchmypc.net/updates/PatchMyPC/PatchMyPCUpdater.exe
</PMPCUpdateDownload>
<ReaderDownload>
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.2/de_DE/AdbeRdr1012_de_DE.exe
</ReaderDownload>


Thanks for your reply

Hans

GOSPY4EVER

Hello Justin

The following apps are different in my language (German): (as far as I know)

-  Adobe Reader
-  Mozilla Firefox
-  Microsoft Security Essentials
-  Real Player
-  Yahoo Messenger
-  Mozilla Thunderbird

The ideal solution would be if you include a switch in your software to let the user specify his own definitions.xml file. So everybody could maintain his own update "timetable". For example, I want to stay at JAVA version 6 at the moment and update only this version (updates are still available) - so instead of disable this software in Patch My PC I could specify the link to the JAVA 6 Updates. And of course for the programs mentioned above I could specify the download link to the german versions.

What do you think? Is it possible to implement this "private" definitions.xml thing?

Hans

Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC)

In theory, This would be fairly easy to implement, but I most likely will not have a local definitions file in any version. The reason is because PMPC already gets false detected as a virus by some anti virus venders (This is why the next version will be digitally signed to help reduce this problem.), and I have to submit a false positive claim for each indecent. If a user changed the download location to a virus for example PMPC would be detected by a virus much more often.

When different languages are supported it will check for the current version that PMPC checks for sorry about that; I know some users still aren't ready to move to the Java 7 updates yet although Java 6 is neat end of life.


Quote from: GOSPY4EVER on January 14, 2012, 02:45:13 AM
Hello Justin

The following apps are different in my language (German): (as far as I know)

-  Adobe Reader
-  Mozilla Firefox
-  Microsoft Security Essentials
-  Real Player
-  Yahoo Messenger
-  Mozilla Thunderbird

The ideal solution would be if you include a switch in your software to let the user specify his own definitions.xml file. So everybody could maintain his own update "timetable". For example, I want to stay at JAVA version 6 at the moment and update only this version (updates are still available) - so instead of disable this software in Patch My PC I could specify the link to the JAVA 6 Updates. And of course for the programs mentioned above I could specify the download link to the german versions.

What do you think? Is it possible to implement this "private" definitions.xml thing?

Hans

Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC)

I started working on adding German in the next version of PMPC. I haven't been able to find the full offline installer file for Yahoo Messenger do you know where this can be downloaded?

Thanks,

Lord Necron

Quote from: Justin on January 15, 2012, 10:18:05 PM
I haven't been able to find the full offline installer file for Yahoo Messenger do you know where this can be downloaded?

ATM I only have a half answer. Current US offline installer is at http://xh.yimg.com/gj/msgr/115/client/ymsgr1150_0152_us.exe . Just replace the country in the dl link. Country abbreviations used can be grabbed from http://messenger.yahoo.com/download/ , although most should be pretty common.

Example: http://xh.yimg.com/gj/msgr/115/client/ymsgr1150_0152_de.exe

I will see if I can find a more long term answer. In the meantime I hope this helps.

Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC)


kulawig

how about danish in langauge selection ?  8)

or as mentioned below an definitions-DK/DA.xml

best regards
Michael