On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 16:39, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 13:26, Chris Browet <c...@semperpax.com> wrote: > >> > >> If you want to use an OSM service in one of your applications, then I > >> would suggest firstly, and most importantly, that the application > >> doesn't have a *.openstreetmap.org URL embedded anywhere in the code. > > > > Come on. Does that mean that we cannot use "www.openstreetmap.org/api" > to > > update the database? > > Well, in the context of stable OS releases that distribute programs > like Merkaartor the API is pretty much *guaranteed* to break. An > Ubuntu LTS release is 5 years, Red Hat and Debian have something > similar. That's a lot less time than the entire 0.5 -> 0.6 transition > took. > Sure, but again, LTS is for business, and I don't see a business using Merkaartor ;-) And the 0.5 -> 0.6 was announced, what, 6 months in advance? With discussions and plannification over 1 year... We can safely assure a package which wasn't updated to 0.6 is abandonware...
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