[josm-dev] New GPX implementation

[Petr Nejedlý]

Greg Troxel napsal(a):
> But, if someone just has to download a jar and add it to a command line,
> that doesn't seem like a big deal, even if it is 7 MB.
>   
It _is_ a big deal in case the change brings no benefit to most of the 
users.
And I would even expect that it would make performance and memory usage 
worse
for those users with large .gpx logs.

Let me put it this way:
*) It is completely OK to write a full-blown GPX editor on top of JOSM, 
but as
  an optional plugin.
*) Most of the users only care to see their GPX visualized good enough 
to use
  it as a helper layer for their mapping.
*) Highly specialized GPX parser will provide such a speed and footprint 
advantage
  over any JAXB-based solution to hugely offset the programmer's time 
investment
  to handwriting and debugging it.

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Nenik