[josm-dev] slippymap plugin not wanting to make render requests

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Robin Rattay wrote:

>> You first need to update the list. Recent plugins hace something above
>> 10000 as revision.
>
> Actually I believe that the plugin updater is broken. On my system (XP)
> at least, renaming the downloaded file to the plugin directory fails
> silently (PluginDownloader.java, line 60).
>
> My guess is that the jar file can't be replaced while in use. Deleting
> the old plugin file first doesn't work either.
>
> Has this actually worked at all or only on specific environments? It
> seems that the update mechanism needs to be changed.

Works on Linux, but probably you're right and it wont work on Windows due 
to the strange Windows file locking. Anyway I seldom use Windows, so 
that's not my problem :-)

Maybe a solution would be to store files with an intermediate name in 
case of copy failure and copy these on restart before plugins get loaded.

Ciao
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