[josm-dev] JOSM 7182 released (first Java 7 version)

[Maarten Deen]

On 2014-05-29 13:33, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2014, Vincent Privat wrote:
> 
>> I dropped the support of 0.5 in the general code cleanup process.
>> Didn't think it was worth keeping 5 years after release of API 0.6... 
>> Feel
>> free to revert r7013 if you think it's really important.
> 
> I've seen that change and it still looks fine for me. Thought a
> failure to load our own files is not fine.
> 
> There should be a way to upgrade old files somehow.

I can understand it when nobody wants to build a conversion routine to 
save 0.5 files to 0.6. While the changes from 0.5 to 0.6 appear to be 
trivial, who knows what changes are to come for 0.7 (and the change from 
0.4 to 0.5 also was less trivial).

But I agree that loading of old files should be possible in some way. As 
there is no functionality to save old versions to new versions, an old 
version file will remain an old version file, whatever you do with it.

I may misuse JOSM for other purposes (the file in question holds POIs 
for a walking network and I use JOSM to keep track where I've been and 
use it to easily identify where the ones are that I still need to go 
to), but it seems to me that keeping this functionality would not be a 
big deal. Especially since more things than just that changed and the 
latest JOSM available for download that does load 0.5 files (7006) does 
not display amenity icons on the nodes anymore (nodes are just nodes, 
either open squares when they have no keys or light blue filled squares 
when they have keys).

Regards,
Maarten