[josm-dev] Fwd: start of gwtosm the google webtoolkit port of josm

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Maybe. I'm not familiar with it. But it does seem to do a lot of
> things right, and it's well maintained and complete. You could do a
> lot worse than using its primatives and well tested upload/download
> code for a new client.

I am not convinced that any branch aimed at making JOSM more suitable 
for gwt will still be well maintained and complete ;-) or more 
precisely, I am pretty sure that it will not be possible to pull this 
off without drawbacks for the "real" JOSM.

> Isn't josm-ng dead-ish at this point? I thought it was just a one-man
> project whose ideas are mostly in the main josm by now, maybe I'm
> wrong.

If you want a Java library to handle OSM primitives, you can do worse 
than using JOSM-NG, dead or not dead. And if you want a Java library 
with a bunch of active developers behind it then I suspect that you are 
unlikely to find that in JOSM.

> Anyway, we'll see how this GWT experiment turns out.

True.

Bye
Frederik

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