On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Brett Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Brett Henderson wrote: > >> I'm in the process of releasing 0.31 so that people have a known > >> stable version to download that supports 0.6. It still includes all > >> of the existing 0.5 tasks. > >> > >> So, would there be any objections to dropping 0.5 support? It's not > >> urgent, but I'd like to get rid of them at some stage. > > > > There are some minor tools out there which don't yet support 0.6 (some > > simply do a version compare and balk if it isn't 0.5 - easy for a > > programmer to fix but maybe not so easy for every user). Only recently > > someone complained that the Ruby osmlib does not support 0.6. I told > > them to simply run the 0.6 file through osmosis and --write-xml-0.5... > > but of course 0.6-to-0.5-translation could also be achieved by an XSLT > > one-liner I guess. > It's not a big deal, I'll keep them around for a bit longer then. I > don't want to spend much effort looking after them though. If they need > to be fixed to keep up with osmosis changes I'd rather drop them and > avoid the effort. > > The other point is that so long as a copy of osmosis-0.31 is available > somewhere they'll have that as a fallback option. > > Brett > When you do eventually drop it, it would be a good idea to create an SVN tag for the last Osmosis version with 0.5 support so it can be easily found later (I seem to recall having to sort through commit messages to find the last 0.4-supporting version for someone a few months back). Karl
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