[josm-dev] Difference between JOSM and JOSM-NG

[Gervase Markham]

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> To me rewrites look like dead-born projects most of the time. Why not 
> fix josm instead? I never understood, why total rewrites from scratch 
> should be useful. Every software can be moved to a new and better design 
> step by step.

As I understand it, the reason is a difference of opinion between the
JOSM maintainer and the JOSM-NG author on some fairly fundamental issues
of design - the JOSM-NG author wanted to make some substantial changes
to JOSM which were rejected.

But I could be misremembering.

Gerv