[josm-dev] "unmaintained" plugins

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, MP wrote:

> Also, i think this "feature" as it is is quite stupid - if you want to
> use some of the unmaintained plugins (if that plugin is still working,
> which is the case of mutipoly), there should be some checkbox "don't
> remind me for this plugin again", otherwise you'll see this message
> every time you start JOSM. I think current exception handling in
> plugin is enough - when plugin causes exception, there is possibility
> to disable it. Plugins that do not work cause exception and gets
> disabled by the user.

Ah I forgot. Most plugins use a nonstandard naming, so JOSM will not be 
able to detect the plugin. The plugin multipoly is one of them.

I'm currently changing the code in JOSM which detects if a plugin was the 
reason for problems.

Ciao
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