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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">It's not a major problem
but it does come up from time to time. Usually iD is acceptable and if
they are a heavy mapper then they'll find a suitable machine.<br>
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A version of JOSM wrapped in an .exe than ran under windows would be
useful as long as JAVA did not have to be installed.<br>
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My feeling runs along the lines of Fredrick's comments. The language
isn't particularly important, we do have a very good idea of what works
well so its not from scratch if need be. <br>
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I think what is important are the issues are raised and discussed and I
think that has been done.<br>
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There is probably an element of religion here, the existing developers
know JAVA and their existing development environment and are happy with
it. It would be a lot of work and there would be a lot of testing to do
and I've never one for change for change sake. <br>
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Let's hope there isn't an urgent need in the future. If it needs to be
done it's better to have sufficient time available.<br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<span>Matthijs Melissen wrote on 2018-10-07 6:12 PM:</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 7 Oct
2018 at 23:11, john whelan <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is
this an actual problem you, or people you know, encounter? If so, is
this a policy or a technical measure? In any case, banning Java but
allowing arbitrary other executables is silly (a good policy would ban
Java Applet plug-ins from browsers instead, this is what might have
caused the confusion).</div><div><br></div><div>Would offering a version
of JOSM somehow wrapped in a .exe help?</div><div><br></div><div>--
Matthijs </div></div></div>
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