[josm-dev] .jar file size is too big

[Raphaël Jacquot]

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:29 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> > Only 24% of JOSM users use english 
> > software version - The majority uses localized JOSM (50% use german).
> 
> Everybody loses if languages are packaged with the bundle - the German 
> user downloads about 3 MB of compressed translation classes when only 
> 250 KB are relevant to him. Same for the English, Danish, Japanese, 
> Spanish, Czech, French, and all the others.
> 
> I'm not saying don't translate. I just say don't force *every* JOSM user 
> to download *every* language which is what we currently do.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik

isn't there a way to do it as external files, a la gnu/gettext ?