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

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Maarten Deen wrote:

> Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>>> Can we perhaps think of a way to dynamically load the language support
>>> instead of burdening *every* downloader with megabytes of translations
>>> in languages he will never select? This is very unlikely to scale well.
>>
>> Well, as said the advantage of having localized JOSM and the disadvantage
>> of larger file size goes hand-in-hand. Only 24% of JOSM users use english
>> software version - The majority uses localized JOSM (50% use german).
>
> Is that 50% of the non-english users or 50% of the total?

50% total.

> That would mean that with just three versions, you would cater for either 62
> or 74% of all users.
> I would think that's enough to make the effort. Maybe not make a localized
> version of every josm-latest, but at least for official ones.

The numbers pretty much look like the user stats, so I would say nearly 
100% use native language when available. Only supporting the "MAJOR" 
languages would be the totally wrong sign from my point of view. We want 
more users outside of British and German area, not less.

> Generally, I'm also in favour of moving things out of the main .jar file if
> that's possible. I hate bloatware.

Could we come back to reality? 5MB are in no way bloatware. Most of the 
translations are the presets which are a very important part of JOSM.

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