[josm-dev] Introduce versioning scheme
    Dirk Stöcker 
    openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
       
    Tue Feb  9 12:07:54 GMT 2010
    
    
  
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
>> The software tells its version in start screen, in about dialog, at
>> commandline, in bug reports, ... That should be enough.
>
> Well that requires you to actually run the program. If you suspect
> that there is a backdoored version you don't want to run it but
> instead compare it against the version it claims to be :-)
unzip -c josm-tested.jar REVISION (or use any standard Zip-File viewer 
usually embedded in recent operating systems).
Also all released JOSM jar files are signed, so you can use Java to verify 
signature.
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