All,
Dirk (the current JOSM maintainer) has just announced on josm-dev
that JOSM will move to Java6 around the end of this month. This means
that anyone who does not have Java6 may continue to work with the
current JOSM release but will not be able to use the new builds from
April on.
Backports will be possible but will likely imply a loss of
functionality, and the core JOSM team is not going to provide backports.
Java6 has been around for more than three years now (and other OSM
software, e.g. Osmosis, already depends on it) so if you are still using
an older version it might be time to upgrade. (If you are in the
unfortunate situation of having willfully chained yourself to one
Hardware/OS supplier and that supplier is unwilling to release Java6 for
your platform, it may be time to finally ditch that supplier.)
Bye
Frederik
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