[bug#35545] [PATCH] Add josm.

[Julien Lepiller]

Le Sun, 5 May 2019 13:18:38 +0200,
Björn Höfling <address@hidden> a écrit :

> On Fri, 3 May 2019 14:58:36 +0200
> Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guix!
> > 
> > this patch series adds josm, the Java OpenStreetMap editor, and its
> > dependencies.  
> 
> Hi Julien!
> 
> This is great news to have a package for josm available! Thanks.
> 
> I reviewed 1-5 until now and would need about a week to review the
> rest, if noone else gives an OK earlier.
> 
> I know JOSM has plugins. Do you know anything about the licenses of
> these plugins? Should we/do we need to compile all of them from
> sources? Can we stick with the default Plugin-Repository? I'm thinking
> about FSDG-compatibility.
> 
> Björn
> 
> 
> 

That's a very good question! It doesn't look like they commit to only
free software. In fact here is what I found on the website:

Note for plugin developers: If you wrote a plugin and want JOSM to find
it, it should be enough to add the plugin to the ​OpenStreetMap
Subversion Repository (SVN) and it will automatically appear on this
page. If you cannot put your plugin into SVN then edit this page and
insert a link to your plugin jar file into the page; after a few
minutes your plugin will be downloaded and the MANIFEST file will be
used to extract information for the table below. 

I don't know if that implies being listed at that page only or also in
the plugin manager. I don't use plugins, so I didn't notice, but
attempting to use one failed anyway:

2019-05-05 11:30:47.967 GRAVE:
org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.PluginException: Une erreur est survenue
dans le greffon buildings_tools. Cause :
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.buildings_tools.BuildingsToolsPlugin
org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.PluginException: Une erreur est survenue
dans le greffon buildings_tools

I don't know how to load plugins outside of the plugin manager. Ideas?