[OSM-dev] JOSM Plugins: getPluginDir() doesn't work as expected and some plugins still use it ...

[Ulf Lamping]

Hi!

Don't know if this is the right list for JOSM devel ...

Just fixed a bug in the combination of mappaint and recent JOSM versions.

The function getPluginDir() is already deprecated and doesn't work any 
longer as expected in current JOSM versions.

It does return the dir of the latest loaded plugin and not of the plugin 
in question.

I don't know if this is an intermittent bug in JOSM which will be fixed. 
Please, to avoid any more confusion, this function should be fixed to 
work as expected or just removed from JOSM completely. It's better to 
get a clear error message for not being able to load plugins still using 
this, than to have some strange behaviour of the plugin much later ;-)

A quick search for getPluginDir returned the following plugins still 
using it: osmarender, validator and ywms. As I don't want to setup the 
build environments for theses as well, could the corresponding 
developers have a look at this?

Regards, ULFL