Maarten Deen schrieb: > Ulf Lamping wrote: >> Frederik Ramm schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Ulf Lamping wrote: >>>> 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. >>> It's easy to say that when you are behind a DSL pipe. It all sounds very >>> generous and inclusive: "We're not discriminating against anyone, we >>> support all languages!" when at the same time you're happily >>> discriminating against anyone who happens to have a slower Internet >>> connection. >> I have installed and used JOSM behind a 56K modem line before. The issue >> - as Dirk alread noted - was not the JOSM, but the data download. >> >> Anyway, my main interest is to get users up and running as *easy* as >> possible - not having to select any language but simply start working is >> what I want to see. > > Than you make localized versions _and_ one "have-it-all" version. Make the > "have-it-all" version available in the directory it is now and have the > localized versions "hidden" in a directory with its name so that novice users > can't find it.
Will you be the one actually *maintaining* all those versions in the long run (aka for the next few years)? Aswering users questions, looking after the build if something went wrong ... > Somehow I get a big sense of "I'm the programmer and I am doing it my way" > from > this discussion (and have gotten that on previous occasions in other OSM > areas). > Doesn't the programmer want to cater for the users of his program? Jeez, it > appears to be a minor fix from which nobody loses anything and we make such a > fuss about it. Telling other people what they have to do is always the easy part ... Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
