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

[Emilie Laffray]

On 25 March 2010 20:05, Claudius <claudius.h at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 25.03.2010 19:31, Aun Johnsen:
> > For me it would be appreciated that JOSM
> > was split into another branch, so that we can have JOSM j5 and JOSM j6
> > side by side.
>
> Actually that's exactly what the JOSM devs announced:
> After the JOSM j5 stable version is finished the j6 development
> continues and if anyone cares he can do backports of all the
> developments. But none of the current JOSM developers wants to do it and
> most probably it will be impossible to backport some of the new features
> because they are only possible with j6 without rewriting most parts of
> the app.
>
> Besides I think there's a lot of fuzz about this move: If you check the
> editor tags in the latest changelog you can see that roughly 50% are
> using JOSM 2055. That's a 7 month old version and was issued stable back
> then. Even without the updated relation support many users seem to be
> able to get along very well. I think that 3155 will be useful at least
> the same amount of time. And if you miss something in winter 2010 you
> can switch to merkaartor or Mapzen 2.0 or OSM2Go or iLoe or OpenMaps or
> ....
>
>
In the case of Christian, his main reason for using JOSM like most French
people actually is a specific plugin to access the Cadastre, which has been
a major source of mapping in France. Anyway, I am sure that in the end a
good enough solution will be found for everyone. OpenJDK is potentially a
way. Porting the plugin to different editor like Merkaator or Potlatch2
might be a solution.
Does Merkaator has a plugin mechanism which would allow us to add the tool?
Now on the debate itself, I am a programmer, so I can understand the point
of upgrading.

Just my 2 cents to explain why Christian is so upset.

Emilie Laffray
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