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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> This sounds like first and second class languages and this is something 
> which I really would hate. It is bad enought that english users are 
> preferred usually, but I wont do thing to encourage such language based 
> discrimination.

We don't need to put German and English in the same file, that would 
just be a middle ground between convenience (your position) and file 
size (my position).

I don't think it is important to give people the option to choose the 
language *after* they have downloaded JOSM - it would be sufficient to 
give them the option to choose the language *when* they download JOSM.

I propose to split up the build process so that it builds a special 
version for each language. In addition, we can keep building the 
all-languages version for those in a true multilingual environment (or 
those on a fat pipe who would rather not be bothered). That would be the 
easiest way to tackle the problem. I'm not an ant guru but I think even 
I could do that.

(I also like the Web Start idea but I have burnt my fingers with that on 
Linux using non-Sun Java installations in the past so I'm not sure how 
far I want to trust it; plus I am unsure how good this works when you're 
offline?)

Bye
Frederik