On 17.06.2015 00:21, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
Would it be possible to make JCS an optional dependency and use the previous caching mechanism if it's not available?
We switched to the JCS cache to address an issue we had with the old custom file based caching system: There was no global size limit, so the cache would grow quickly to several GByte of image data.
Reverting to the old caching for Debian and Debian-based distributions would be a set-back and would reintroduce a nuisance that we already fixed. On top of that, it would mean considerable additional development effort to maintain both caching systems side by side. All that for a solution that is temporary anyway. We have a small team and I would rather see us going forward.
This would make it easier to package current JOSM tested snapshots (and backports for these) until JCS is more widely available in distributions (JCS 2.0 is still at beta1). There are still several missing pieces to get JCS packaged in Debian for example.
Still, packaging of JCS for Debian seems to be the best way to fix this problem.
Best, Paul _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
