Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Having a binary XML format is another approach. And would again >> significantly reduce the communication delay between client and api. > > All your comments seem to assume that we have an arbitrary amount of > time an manpower to change the API plus all clients. This is a > misconception, and your comments are not helpful without a workable > transition strategy.
The assumption that manpower is not available is flawed too. 'We' are able to change the API into a 0.6 release we will most definitely be able to bump it to 0.7. The time you want to invest in your editor to support a new API is probably equal to the users you want to give a good experience. Since the gold is already 'published', you can jump on the train or can wait till the train stops. I think with the solutions I and others have now created the transition strategy is very simple. If we support the same standard, we can switch anytime we want. Since we already support multiple standards I just wait for 0.6 to be final :) Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
