[josm-dev] Jumbo Patch

[Brent Easton]

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On 16/12/2007 at 10:13 PM Petr Nejedly  wrote:

>Gabriel Ebner napsal(a):
>> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:56:19AM +0100, Petr Nejedly wrote:
>
>>> (I certainly won't call a getter "bloat" and hotspot even inlines the
>code).
>> 
>> Getters are bloat, at least as they are written in java.  I'd bet those
>who
>> invented it were being paid for the line.  A simple public field takes
>what,
>> around one line?
>
>There's no point in commenting the rest of your message.
>I was just trying to be nice to JOSM and plugin developers, but you're
>basically
>saying that it is OK to rewrite the core heavily and break plugins if it
>serves
>the purpose. 


Ah, but even small changes to the core breaks plugins, surely a sign that more strucure is needed! 

Consider if there where 100 plugins instead of 10, who is going to fix them all?


> Why I don't like such an approach, JOSM is not my project and
>I'm only trying to improve it to better cover my needs.
>So far all the changes I have in my sleeve (already coded) are
>nonintrusive,
>but I think of few optimizations that would need update of unrelated parts,
>and providing real scalability into JOSM would certainly require heavy
>restructuralization, including wrapping some fields or some other measure
>to cover external changes.
>
>I just want to know whether such changes will be accepted.

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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au