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

Ulf Lamping ulf.lamping at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 17 19:14:05 BST 2009


Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> 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.

Having one download version of JOSM will make life easier for all involved.

Complicating the build process for the developers and the download step 
for users is *no* price worth to pay for 1-2MB saved download size IMHO.

Regards, ULFL




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