Christian, Christian Rogel wrote: > Maybe, Java 1.6 has very luring features, but the search of perfection > by smart developers has to be weighted when considering the number of > OSMers who cannot afford themselves any changement.
Developers are in shorter supply than mappers. I have resisted the move to 1.6 quite a while myself saying that it does us no good to require more than the average operating system can offer. But we've reached a point where developers actually have to waste time to find workarounds for stuff that would simply work in 1.6 - time that could also be used to fix bugs or improve the software in other ways. Tough as it may be for some users, we cannot indefinitely support old hardware, and with Java 1.6 the time has come to make a cut. But like all almost OSM software, JOSM is open source and you will of course be able to retrieve old software versions from SVN and build them on whatever flavour of Java you like... > So, I do demand hat there will be a final and stable JOSM version for > 1.5 with adequate cadastre.fr plug-in. ... just don't "demand" things. (It is actually quite likely that the last working 1.5 version will somehow be flagged and documented as such; maybe someone even makes a package with all the plugins. Actually - you could do that yourself!) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
