[OSM-talk] Moving to Java 1.6 not so easy to swallow

[Frederik Ramm]

Christian,

Christian Rogel wrote:
> Maybe, Java 1.6 has very luring features, but the search of perfection 
> by smart developers has to be weighted when considering the number of 
> OSMers who cannot afford themselves any changement.

Developers are in shorter supply than mappers. I have resisted the move 
to 1.6 quite a while myself saying that it does us no good to require 
more than the average operating system can offer.

But we've reached a point where developers actually have to waste time 
to find workarounds for stuff that would simply work in 1.6 - time that 
could also be used to fix bugs or improve the software in other ways.

Tough as it may be for some users, we cannot indefinitely support old 
hardware, and with Java 1.6 the time has come to make a cut.

But like all almost OSM software, JOSM is open source and you will of 
course be able to retrieve old software versions from SVN and build them 
on whatever flavour of Java you like...

> So, I do demand hat there will be a final and stable JOSM version for 
> 1.5 with adequate cadastre.fr plug-in.

... just don't "demand" things.

(It is actually quite likely that the last working 1.5 version will 
somehow be flagged and documented as such; maybe someone even makes a 
package with all the plugins. Actually - you could do that yourself!)

Bye
Frederik

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