people will switch to openjdk. problem solved. On Sun., Oct. 7, 2018, 5:09 p.m. john whelan, <jwhelan0...@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 My days as a coder were in the main forty years ago so I'm out of date 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 > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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