I disagree. For that sum of money I would be willing to start writing a new editor in Rust compiled to WebAssembly and desktop and reach a state of basic editing useability in 2 months. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohuTy8MmbLc Cheers
Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> skrev: (3 augusti 2020 01:00:49 CEST) >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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