[bug#35545] [PATCH] Add josm.

[Björn Höfling]

On Sun, 5 May 2019 13:37:09 +0200
Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> wrote:

> > 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?

I could install the buildings plugin successfully.

I have no idea on how to load plugins from outside the manager and
haven't looked into the code. But the plugins could be of any license
and/or could at least have unfree (or at least unbootstrappable)
dependencies. Until we know how to deal correctly with plugins, we
could disable the plugins-manager?

Björn

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