[OSM-talk] Is it time to redevelop JOSM?

[john whelan]

But will it run JOSM today or would some changes be required to JOSM?

Thanks John

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, 5:11 pm James, <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> people will switch to openjdk. problem solved.
>
> On Sun., Oct. 7, 2018, 5:09 p.m. john whelan, <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> JAVA has a number of problems.  Many corporations ban its installation
>> citing security issues which restricts the machines that can use JOSM with
>> all its nice tools.
>>
>> Oracle never was enamoured of open software and since it has taken over
>> JAVA the licensing has changed amongst other things.
>>
>> I note that Vincent Privat has reservations about the new version saying
>> they are removing functionality from JAVA that JOSM depends on.
>>
>> Running old versions of JAVA is I think impractical.  There are too many
>> security issues.
>>
>> iD runs using an Internet connection and a browser.  I think there is a
>> need for something like JOSM which can work completely off line if need be.
>>
>> C# apparently is open source.  Visual Studio 2017 is a professional
>> development environment.  Yes it is Windows and I recognise that many
>> prefer one flavour of UNIX or another but I think it is time to think
>> strategically and start work on a replacement for JOSM before we find we
>> can no longer use it.  It can certainly create code which will run on UNIX
>> systems.
>>
>> I'm not saying C# is the only way to go.
>>
>> My days as a coder were in the main forty years ago so I'm out of date
>> these days however I had occasion to use both C# and Visual Studio 2017
>> recently when the language I used to use to knock up the odd program was
>> unable to do what I was after.  I must confess I was impressed.
>>
>> So thoughts ladies and gentlemen?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Cheerio John
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