[josm-dev] New GPX implementation

Dirk Stöcker openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Thu May 7 17:30:25 BST 2009


On Thu, 7 May 2009, Henrik Niehaus wrote:

> 1. If we take all three steps you suggested, we have the same situation
> as today. There will be many spots in JOSM, which will change, because
> the old code has to be removed and the new merged into JOSM

No. We would not remove old code now. Would be same situation as for image 
handling where agpifoj is the current solution and probably should replace 
the internal code one day.

> 2. Plugins depending on the GPX code have to be adapted to the new
> plugin, which would be the same work, as adapting them now to the new
> implementation.
> 2.1 We would have plugins, which depend on each other and afaik the
> plugin mechanism doesn't support dependency management, yet.

We have. Plugin dependecy is e.g. used fo surveyor plugin which depends on 
livegps.

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