[josm-dev] JOSM version detect

[Shaun McDonald]

On 6 Apr 2009, at 19:28, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What I have just committed seems to work all right with 0.5 and 0.6
> servers. The cancel and error situation handling still needs to be
> checked and probably improved. Also, I have to check whether it always
> behaves right when dealing with 0.5 and 0.6 files and mixing them.
>
> Of course, anyone is welcome to look at my code and fix things. There
> are a few situations where I think I have not yet found the best  
> design
> decision especially concerning the division of labour between
> OsmServerWriter and OsmApi. Maybe they should be merged.
>
> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/changeset/1523
>
> If you find any strangeness regarding server up-/download on josm- 
> latest
> in the next few days, send me a quick e-mail and I'll investigate.
>

I've spotted another thing that could be improved (don't know if it's  
been caught already), and that is that every map request has a  
capabilities call before it. Wouldn't it be better to do a maximum of  
one per session/day/server details change?

Is the latest version of JOSM going to be updated early in the week to  
include these changes, thus meaning that people will be ready for API  
0.6 without the need to download a new version, nor fiddling of any  
settings.

This is also important for the new Ubuntu packages that are being  
prepared, where I believe 1515 is the version that is going to be  
going in, rather than 1523 or later, thus in a weeks time, after the  
api upgrade, the Ubuntu packages won't work out the box without  
setting a preference.

Shaun