On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Jochen Topf <[email protected]> wrote: > > If we use unsigned ints we have some more time. Problematic would only be > a few cases where negative IDs are currently used (like in JOSM for data > thats not yet uploaded to the server). But it seems wasteful to me, to go > to 64bit a year or so earlier than needed to accommodate this case.
The 64 bit transition is unavoidable. I think this would double the effort, because we'd all have to go through our software twice, once to fix signedness bugs, and a second time to go to 64 bits. In addition, the Java stack couldn't transition to unsigned ints anyways, as Java lacks unsigned types. An unsigned int transition would be a 64-bit transition. Scott _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
