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

2009-07-18 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Dirk Stöcker schrieb: I wont give that away for some short term effects (which download size is nowadays). I'm sometimes at a location where I only can use an analog (dial-in) modem (no DSL or ISDN present), with mobile phones I only get a GPRS connection (no EGGE or UMTS). This location is

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

2009-07-18 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Maarten Deen wrote: 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. Somehow I get a

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

2009-07-17 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: I am a bit concerned about the fact that the JOSM .jar file has grown from 1.7 MB to 5.5 MB in the last 12 months, that's factor 3.2. With all due respect, I do not think that JOSM is now 3.2 times as good as it was one year ago - it certainly is

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

2009-07-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dirk Stöcker wrote: Only 24% of JOSM users use english software version - The majority uses localized JOSM (50% use german). Everybody loses if languages are packaged with the bundle - the German user downloads about 3 MB of compressed translation classes when only 250 KB are relevant

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

2009-07-17 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: Only 24% of JOSM users use english software version - The majority uses localized JOSM (50% use german). Everybody loses if languages are packaged with the bundle - the German user downloads about 3 MB of compressed translation classes when only 250

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

2009-07-17 Thread Petr Nejedlý
Dirk Stöcker napsal(a): On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: Only 24% of JOSM users use english software version - The majority uses localized JOSM (50% use german). Everybody loses if languages are packaged with the bundle - the German user downloads about 3 MB of compressed

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

2009-07-17 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Maarten Deen wrote: Dirk Stöcker wrote: On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: Can we perhaps think of a way to dynamically load the language support instead of burdening *every* downloader with megabytes of translations in languages he will never select? This is

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

2009-07-17 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Petr Nejedlý 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. Webstart with jarindex and jars split per language? Sounds good. When I

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

2009-07-17 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote: I propose to split up the build process so that it builds a special version for each language. In addition, we can keep building the all-languages version for those in a true multilingual environment (or those on a fat

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

2009-07-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/7/17 Dirk Stöcker openstreet...@dstoecker.de: ...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. never say never ;-) Martin ___ josm-dev mailing

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

2009-07-17 Thread Andre Schild
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. I'm not sure this is the best solution. For example on OpenOffice I get a big list

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

2009-07-17 Thread Sebastian Waschik
Hello, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org writes: I propose to split up the build process so that it builds a special version for each language. In addition, we can keep building the all-languages version for those in a true multilingual environment (or those on a fat pipe who would rather

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

2009-07-17 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Jonathan Bennett wrote: 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.

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

2009-07-17 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: I propose to split up the build process so that it builds a special version for each language. In addition, we can keep building the all-languages version for those in a true multilingual environment (or those on a fat pipe who would rather not be

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

2009-07-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dirk Stöcker wrote: There are different points of view, but I'm from Germany and I'm proud of the fact that I learned something from my own history. Well repeating history would be forcing everyone to use the German JOSM. ACHTUNG!!!11! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

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

2009-07-17 Thread Ulf Lamping
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

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

2009-07-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
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

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

2009-07-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ulf Lamping wrote: 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. I don't accept that argument. Downloading a large area (plus aerial imagery) and making edits there is only one of a large number