But will it run JOSM today or would some changes be required to JOSM? Thanks John
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, 5:11 pm James, <[email protected]> wrote: > people will switch to openjdk. problem solved. > > On Sun., Oct. 7, 2018, 5:09 p.m. john whelan, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> JAVA has a number of problems. Many corporations ban its installation >> citing security issues which restricts the machines that can use JOSM with >> all its nice tools. >> >> Oracle never was enamoured of open software and since it has taken over >> JAVA the licensing has changed amongst other things. >> >> I note that Vincent Privat has reservations about the new version saying >> they are removing functionality from JAVA that JOSM depends on. >> >> Running old versions of JAVA is I think impractical. There are too many >> security issues. >> >> iD runs using an Internet connection and a browser. I think there is a >> need for something like JOSM which can work completely off line if need be. >> >> C# apparently is open source. Visual Studio 2017 is a professional >> development environment. Yes it is Windows and I recognise that many >> prefer one flavour of UNIX or another but I think it is time to think >> strategically and start work on a replacement for JOSM before we find we >> can no longer use it. It can certainly create code which will run on UNIX >> systems. >> >> I'm not saying C# is the only way to go. >> >> My days as a coder were in the main forty years ago so I'm out of date >> these days however I had occasion to use both C# and Visual Studio 2017 >> recently when the language I used to use to knock up the odd program was >> unable to do what I was after. I must confess I was impressed. >> >> So thoughts ladies and gentlemen? >> >> Thanks >> >> Cheerio John >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >
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