On 25 March 2010 20:05, Claudius <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 25.03.2010 19:31, Aun Johnsen: > > For me it would be appreciated that JOSM > > was split into another branch, so that we can have JOSM j5 and JOSM j6 > > side by side. > > Actually that's exactly what the JOSM devs announced: > After the JOSM j5 stable version is finished the j6 development > continues and if anyone cares he can do backports of all the > developments. But none of the current JOSM developers wants to do it and > most probably it will be impossible to backport some of the new features > because they are only possible with j6 without rewriting most parts of > the app. > > Besides I think there's a lot of fuzz about this move: If you check the > editor tags in the latest changelog you can see that roughly 50% are > using JOSM 2055. That's a 7 month old version and was issued stable back > then. Even without the updated relation support many users seem to be > able to get along very well. I think that 3155 will be useful at least > the same amount of time. And if you miss something in winter 2010 you > can switch to merkaartor or Mapzen 2.0 or OSM2Go or iLoe or OpenMaps or > .... > > In the case of Christian, his main reason for using JOSM like most French people actually is a specific plugin to access the Cadastre, which has been a major source of mapping in France. Anyway, I am sure that in the end a good enough solution will be found for everyone. OpenJDK is potentially a way. Porting the plugin to different editor like Merkaator or Potlatch2 might be a solution. Does Merkaator has a plugin mechanism which would allow us to add the tool? Now on the debate itself, I am a programmer, so I can understand the point of upgrading.
Just my 2 cents to explain why Christian is so upset. Emilie Laffray
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