Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: Sweet. How hard can ActionScript be, really? (I've done plenty of C, Delphi, Java etc in the distant past, usually the difficulty is not the language, it's learning the codebase.) Exactly. If you know Java then you shouldn't find AS3 much of a stretch at all - think of

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: How hard can ActionScript be, really? If I can do it, anyone can. Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:38, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Steve Bennett wrote: Sweet. How hard can ActionScript be, really? (I've done plenty of C, Delphi, Java etc in the distant past, usually the difficulty is not the language, it's learning the codebase.) Exactly. If

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Is it worse or better than the PL1 codebase ?:) Do you want a serious answer to that? :) The codebase is a lot more proper: there's packages and private/protected variables and all of that. You could probably write unit tests for it if you like that sort of

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it won't be for the next 6 weeks. \o/ If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it won't be for the next 6 weeks. \o/ If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are oodles of exciting things you can do with presets and icons and stuff. Either drop me a line off-list or (better

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 28/02/2010 22:27, Randy wrote: Oops, I meant to check the groups list before sending this. There is an announce list, as of last October. However, it hasn't had much activity. That's because, try as I might, I'm not psychic and can't announce things people don't tell me about. Jonathan

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-09 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Randy rwtnospam-new...@yahoo.com wrote: So, Steve, is your point a complaint or an offer to help (or both)? And if a complaint, do you have a suggestion for improvement? An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually do want to help with PL2

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-02-28 Thread Randy
Steve Bennett wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: Sure, but I think you missed my point a bit. If I had already known that help was wanted, and if I had already signed up to the dev list (which I didn't realise existed until now), then I guess I

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-02-28 Thread Randy
Randy wrote: My personal thought: Maybe we need an announce list, which is nothing more than a list for folks to announce various opportunities, or new (or old) products periodically, with a general agreement (or moderation) that the only allowed replies are requests for more information or

[OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: There have been a number of posts to dev on the subject, sorry you missed them. If you want to get involved then that's great. You can see the code here and check it out of SVN:

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: There have been a number of posts to dev on the subject, sorry you missed them. If you want to get involved then that's great. You can see