Frederik Ramm wrote: > All I ever hear is "once we have a proper design, we will..." (be able > to improve performance, attract more developers, whatever), and I simply > don't believe these claims. As I said before, where are all the Java > experts flocking to JOSM-NG because of its clean design? As I said > before, it would only take a few Java Expert man-days to get JOSM-NG to > "fly".
At the risk of opening another can of worms, I'll venture an answer to that. I don't want to knock Petr in any way, but many people are very wary of 'rewriting from scratch'. The link below has a popular explanation, but essentially the fear is that re-implementing all the stuff in the existing project will always take far more time than expected. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Thus, the big deal about refactoring is not that it is about modern design patterns, but it is about keeping the old, slightly wobbly JOSM, and changing it bit by bit. Not by redesigning from scratch. If it was ok to 'modernise' josm a bit, whilst fixing bugs/making improvements, that would be ok. But, unless I misunderstand, you're asking for almost a case-by-case proof burden on someone who wants to work like that. Please don't take this personally (either Frederik, or Petr). I think most of us already think the future josm has the best bits of josm and josm-ng combined in it. I'm just attempting to explain why many may be reluctant to jump on board with josm-ng right now. Tom _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
