Dirk Stöcker wrote: > To me rewrites look like dead-born projects most of the time. Why not > fix josm instead? I never understood, why total rewrites from scratch > should be useful. Every software can be moved to a new and better design > step by step.
As I understand it, the reason is a difference of opinion between the JOSM maintainer and the JOSM-NG author on some fairly fundamental issues of design - the JOSM-NG author wanted to make some substantial changes to JOSM which were rejected. But I could be misremembering. Gerv _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev