[josm-dev] New GPX implementation

[Greg Troxel]

Henrik Niehaus <henrik.niehaus at gmx.de> writes:

>> Cons:
>> 1. JOSM depends on JAXB -> 5 jars with a total size of 1MiB (for JDK
>> 1.5. JDK 1.6 comes with JAXB)
>> 2. It's a big patch and might need some time to get everything
>> (including plugins) back to work
>> 3. New bugs, which made their way in the new implementation
>> 
>> So, what do you think about this patch?
>> 
>> Best
>> Henrik
>
> No one interested?

I believe that I am bit on the fringe so didn't reply the first time.
It sounds cool to have better XML support.  But, I have trouble running
JOSM on my normal computer because java isn't portable (Sun doesn't
release a JDK for NetBSD, one needs a recent JDK due to language changs,
and openjdk is in practice not quite there yet), and therefore I have a
negative reaction to adding dependencies.  But, I suspect that the real
issue is with the JDK and additional libraries is not a big deal.

All that said, I use GPX in JOSM to read in tracks and display them, and
that works fine - I haven't wanted to write GPX.
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