On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Well, until someone presents an overly clever system to handle the >> language issue this is a yes/no question. Sorry. And I don't know other >> software where this is solved better. > > For OpenOffice, I have to install a separate language pack if I want i18n.
Yes. And you need to install OpenOffice. You can't use it like JOSM from scratch. > If we think that this is too much to ask of people, then I suggest that > we have one default JOSM jar file which supports all languages (with > roughly 5000 languages worldwide, this file would ultimately be 1 GB in > size), and then create slimmed-down one-language-only jar files for the > most popular languages. OpenOffice has a wide usage and for openSUSE11.1 I count 54 languages supported where each has 1.8MB in bzip2 compressed mode. There will never be 5000 languages for JOSM and you know that. Please don't start silly number games, as I wont continue discussion in this case. A number of about 70 is the maximum which probably can be reached for very popular projects. The OpenOffice size is a BIG difference to 3MB for all 27 languages in JOSM currently and all of these individually compressed in zip mode which reduces compression ratio a lot. For OpenOffice one best compressed language pack is as big as one of the core programs. For JOSM all language data is as big as the application. And the possibility to use tools in your own language increases the usability a lot. I wont drop that without a real good reason. A feeling is not enough for that. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
