Why was addSelectionChangedListener removed?

[kleptog@…]

I was using addSelectionChangedListener() however it got removed at some point. Presumably now people are required to manipulate the list themselves. That means that if you want a plugin to work across the current and stable version you need something like:

try { Main.ds.addSelectionChangedListener(this); }
catch( NoSuchMethodError e )
{

try {
java.lang.reflect.Field f = DataSet.class.getDeclaredField("listeners");
((Collection<SelectionChangedListener>)f.get(Main.ds)).add(this);
} catch (Exception x) { System.out.println( e ); }

}

Which isn't pretty. Could you leave the functions in a little longer until a stable release has the new way public (the other way around requires trapping the security error and falling back to the function...)

[imi]

I think the policy "Releases are stable as they don't change anyway" and "JOSM-Latest is not stable as it is not a release but a beta after the release" sounds quite normal to me.

Note, that you can now upload links to ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Plugins/LatestRelease to point to versions, that only work with the latest release version (means: josm.jar, not josm-release.jar).