<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2010 20:05, Claudius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:claudius.h@gmx.de">claudius.h@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Am 25.03.2010 19:31, Aun Johnsen:<br>
<div class="im">> For me it would be appreciated that JOSM<br>
> was split into another branch, so that we can have JOSM j5 and JOSM j6<br>
> side by side.<br>
<br>
</div>Actually that's exactly what the JOSM devs announced:<br>
After the JOSM j5 stable version is finished the j6 development<br>
continues and if anyone cares he can do backports of all the<br>
developments. But none of the current JOSM developers wants to do it and<br>
most probably it will be impossible to backport some of the new features<br>
because they are only possible with j6 without rewriting most parts of<br>
the app.<br>
<br>
Besides I think there's a lot of fuzz about this move: If you check the<br>
editor tags in the latest changelog you can see that roughly 50% are<br>
using JOSM 2055. That's a 7 month old version and was issued stable back<br>
then. Even without the updated relation support many users seem to be<br>
able to get along very well. I think that 3155 will be useful at least<br>
the same amount of time. And if you miss something in winter 2010 you<br>
can switch to merkaartor or Mapzen 2.0 or OSM2Go or iLoe or OpenMaps or ....<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>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.<br>
Does Merkaator has a plugin mechanism which would allow us to add the tool?<br>Now on the debate itself, I am a programmer, so I can understand the point of upgrading.<br><br>Just my 2 cents to explain why Christian is so upset.<br>
<br>Emilie Laffray<br>