[josm-dev] JOSM and stable version

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de> writes:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>>>> How about adding a symlink to the download directory called
>>>> "josm-testing" (to adopt the Debian way of having "unstable",
>>>> "testing" and "stable") or so?  The link in the wiki could point to
>>>> that.
>>
>>> I can't do that. Frederik?
>>
>> I can, but is "testing" really what we want? Assume that > 50% of JOSM
>> users are not familiar with Debian terminology - is the kind of
>> "semi-stable" JOSM that you had in mind really a "testing" version?
>
> Probably josm-tested.jar is better. As this is what it really is: Tested 
> (a bit :-)
>
> Testing is not best name, as there is nothing which comes after testing.
>
> If you could make such a link based on the wiki it would probably be a 
> good idea. In the wiki I still would leave the link to the snapshot and 
> not the symbolic name.

I don't care what it is called.  You can also call it josm-fallback as
probably some people will use -latest and only use this one if -latest
doesn't work.  ;-)

Matthias