[Tilesathome] Pure Java T at H Client

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> I tend to agree, however, you'll still need support programs like inkscape, 
> pngcrush, zip to make it work.

No, the OP spoke of using Batik, and the other stuff could be supported 
through builtin mechanisms or Java implementations as well.

> So for windows users, in order to make it work 
> properly, you'll need an installer.

Well... even JOSM users (who only need to download ONE SINGLE JAR FILE) 
are calling for an installer so you're probably right here even if you 
were wrong above ;-)

> Furthermore, as much as I would support writing it in Java, it is doing the work 
> twice, especially since Sebastian is really doing a wonderful job in getting the 
> perl client working properly.
> And honestly, I think you'll get the same Unix<->Windows problems in Java too.

My take is, along the lines that I've written recently, I'd rather have 
*less* t at h users who tend to know a bit and have some debugging 
knowledge, than *many* who can do little more than click a button. I 
don't think we have the support capability ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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