Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Is it worse or better than the PL1 codebase ?:) Do you want a serious answer to that? :) The codebase is a lot more "proper": there's packages and private/protected variables and all of that. You could probably write unit tests for it if you like that sort of

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:38, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: > >> Sweet. How hard can ActionScript be, really? (I've done plenty of C, >> Delphi, Java etc in the distant past, usually the difficulty is not >> the language, it's learning the codebase.) > > Exactly. If you know Jav

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > How hard can ActionScript be, really? If I can do it, anyone can. Cheers, Andy ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: > Sweet. How hard can ActionScript be, really? (I've done plenty of C, > Delphi, Java etc in the distant past, usually the difficulty is not > the language, it's learning the codebase.) Exactly. If you know Java then you shouldn't find AS3 much of a stretch at all - think o

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your > oyster. If not, there are oodles of exciting things you can do with presets > and icons and stuff. Either drop me a line off-list or (better still) ask on > the p

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: > An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually > do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it > won't be for the next 6 weeks. \o/ If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: > An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually > do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it > won't be for the next 6 weeks. \o/ If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-09 Thread Randy
Jonathan Bennett wrote: >On 28/02/2010 22:27, Randy wrote: > >>Oops, I meant to check the groups list before sending this. There is an >>announce list, as of last October. However, it hasn't had much activity. > >That's because, try as I might, I'm not psychic and can't announce >things people don

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-09 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Randy wrote: > So, Steve, is your point a complaint or an offer to help (or both)? And if > a complaint, do you have a suggestion for improvement? An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I ca

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 28/02/2010 22:27, Randy wrote: > Oops, I meant to check the groups list before sending this. There is an > announce list, as of last October. However, it hasn't had much activity. That's because, try as I might, I'm not psychic and can't announce things people don't tell me about. Jonathan

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-02-28 Thread Randy
Randy wrote: >My personal thought: Maybe we need an announce list, which is nothing more >than a list for folks to announce various opportunities, or new (or old) >products periodically, with a general agreement (or moderation) that the >only allowed replies are requests for more information or t

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-02-28 Thread Randy
Steve Bennett wrote: >On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dave Stubbs >wrote: > >Sure, but I think you missed my point a bit. If I had already known >that help was wanted, and if I had already signed up to the dev list >(which I didn't realise existed until now), then I guess I would have >seen th

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dave Stubbs > wrote: >> There have been a number of posts to dev on the subject, sorry you >> missed them. If you want to get involved then that's great. >> >> You can see the code here and check it out of

[OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dave Stubbs wrote: > There have been a number of posts to dev on the subject, sorry you > missed them. If you want to get involved then that's great. > > You can see the code here and check it out of SVN: > http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editor