On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/5/5 80n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Unless someone thinks that 2,000 (guesstimate) JOSM users will all > upgrade > > simultaneously, then it would be unwise to just switch from 0.5 to 0.6 > > overnight. > > If it were up to me I'd suggest that the API starts returning versions > numbers *now* (where possible, nodes don't have them yet). And we > deploy in the near future the changes to JOSM to use them and return > them. > > The way I wrote the JOSM patch was essentially so that you could > deploy a version of JOSM beforehand that only needed a preference > change to make it work for 0.6. With this in place by the time we > actually upgrade the server most people will already be running up to > date versions. > > In other words, I think it's easier to get clients to support both > versions, than it is to get the server to support both. > There's 1 server and n clients. How are you measuring easier? 80n > > Have a nice day, > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ >
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