On 03/22/2018 11:32 AM, Matěj Cepl wrote:
On 2018-03-22, 06:51 GMT, Till Maas wrote:
> I orphaned josm (
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/josm), the
> java openstreetmap editor on request by the original
> maintainer. Please adopt it. It needs to be updated regularly
> to follow the current openstreetmap guidelines, currently it
> is outdated (also in EPEL).
My experience with JOSM is that this is probably one of the
programs which are better not to be packaged (other example: vim
plugins). Java Web Start on
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm.jnlp works just fine
and I don't see the reason why we should bother with packaging
it ourselves.
The reasons for packaging something up as rpm is security and system
integrety/consistency, i.e. not to endanger installations from the
(windowish) mindset of "unpackaged" third party stuff.
What you say, basically means you are questioning and deny the
usefulness of packaging as a whole. The key feature which has made Linux
distros great and superior to Windows.
Ralf