Re: [DebianGIS] josm in Debian - web API stability?
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 02:54:57PM -0700, Hamish wrote:
> Andreas Putzo wrote:
> > I asked josm upstream about his opinion some days ago. He said that
> > the api will most like change again in an incompatible way.
> ....
> > I have a good gut feeling that the osm api will be stable for a while
> > but that's probably not enough to let josm into testing :)
>
> if the test to get into lenny is a guarantee that the API will be stable
> forever, no package could pass.
>
Indeed, someone should be sure that upstream does not adopt naive
approaches, such as removing functions, changing existent data structures
and so on. Changing an API is perfectly normal. In rare cases APIs could
be broken by concept and that could be a problem and they need a deep
change. But it is a very rare case, indeed.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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