On Wednesday 05 November 2008 06:15:51 Dirk Stöcker wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Matias D'Ambrosio wrote: > > My mail was meant as a private conversation with Dirk, it was not meant > > for the list, he must have thought I had made a mistake when replying, so > > please > > I get so many mails and participate in so many mailinglists, that I have > automatically filtering. You did not change anything relevant so the mail > got handled as normal merkaartor list mail. Sorry :-) I adapted the filter > a bit, so hopefully that will not happen again. No problem :-) These things happen.
> > read it in that light. I do *not* intend to fork, at most I'd maintain a > > branch, which I already do for personal use and for friends who ask > > (which contains preferences, not any amount of code). > > BTW: As Chris already said - help developing merkaartor directly. It's a > fine piece of software and good quality is reached when people work > together. And at least for me certain conflicts are normal. I had > discussions much worser than this one in the past for other projects. It > can't be me who improves merkaartor because I have lots of other things to > do and as said I mainly watch merkaartor development, but do little active > involment. So I can only try to influence development to go into right > direction. The 'branch' I keep is stuff I've already sent or suggested, and I plan to keep it that way, I try to publish everything that I do, one man's garbage is another man's fortune (which I have sadly seen first hand...). > Merkaartor has developed nicely in the last year and it's going mostly in > the right direction. It is not superior to JOSM yet as you state, there are > still left many problems under the hood which have to be fixed before you > can say so (especially if you look at complicated data structures in the > database :-). Too often "created_by=merkaartor ..." is written in data > structures which JOSM validator finds as problems. But merkaartor will > mature hopefully and become better in these areas as well. I wouldn't know about that :-) My experience with merkaartor is mostly with the UI, and that's the only thing I know about JOSM (never even got the source code for it). _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
