While the benefit of making Potlatch 2 on AIR is small, the cost is tiny. 2500 Euros is an insignificant price to pay for supporting an editor which is still used by a couple of thousand long-term users.
I support this expenditure. – Joseph Eisenberg On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 10:05 AM Alexandre Oliveira <rockyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to share my two cents on the matter of supporting Potlatch 2, > an editor built with (now) dead technology. > > I don't think it's worth spending money to update P2 to Air. As others > have stated, Air has been discontinued as well, and it was developed > by Adobe, probably with the same amount of security flaws as Flash > had, which contributed to its demise. I don't see Air as different > even though it's being maintained now by Samsung. > > Just take a look. The web is different than when P2 released; flash is > deprecated and a synonym for vulnerable systems, Air tried to take off > but now it's just another dead technology. What are the benefits of > porting P2 to Air? It may be easier because Air may share some code > with Flash, which in turn makes it easier to port to. > > However, I think that the OSMF should find someone familiar with Flash > and look forward to porting P2 to modern web technologies (please not > Electron!), like WebAssembly or Web 2.0. Be it JavaScript, > CoffeeScript or TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue.js or any other modern > web tech, it doesn't matter. I think it's going to be money well spent > if P2 was ported to a supported web technology and not something that > died a few years ago and is on life support, and barely anyone uses it > nowadays. > > IMO porting P2 to Air is just a waste of money and time from the > developer, and we will reach the same point in the future, be it > either for deprecating P2 or looking to port it to newer web > technologies. OSMF should prepare for the future and not continue > using deprecated technology. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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