On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, David Paleino wrote:
it would be nice if JOSM used .mo files (installed as /usr/share/locale/<code>/LC_MESSAGES/josm.mo), instead of jar-embedded .lang files. Please read further.
We dropped gettext files as they are wasting a lot of space in the translation. The lang files only carry each string once and not multiple times like .mo does.
What do you think about this?
Nothing, as it actually would be a step back. Thought as always Debian packagers can do what they want to do.
Most of the advantages you describe can be reached by simply renaming the lang files to .mo and install them in different locations. The only difference to mo is the file format (which does not matter, as most tools will not look into the files) and the fact that en.lang must remain in any situation.
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