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Subject: Re: Future of Nedit for people who care about Free Software
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <nedit-erikd () mega-nerd ! com>
Date: 2007-12-02 20:06:04
Message-ID: 20071203070604.ca72f3d7.nedit-erikd () mega-nerd ! com
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Andrew Hood wrote:
> Don't try tarring NEdit with the same brush as LessTif. Or OpenMotif for
> that matter.
After previous discuss I had come to the conclusion that any problems
I was seeing was purely due the lesstif/motif. I took that as a given.
The fact that the binary available on nedit.org is also rock solid is
further proof.
I apologise if I didn't make myself more clear.
> > For me, that means that lesstif is too broken to fix.
>
> Did you bother submitting a bug report to LessTif?
I joined the mailing list and asked about current status. All I
heard was crickets and other users saying "this list is pretty
quiet". Noone stepped up and said "yeah, I work on this".
I looked at the CVS logs. Nothing but minor bug fixes from
the distros in 3-4 years.
To me, that looks like abandonware.
> Did you bother submitting a bug report to Ubuntu?
Yes.
> While you might like
> their bleeding edge code, you can't expect it to be as stable as a more
> conservative distribution.
They ship Nedit 5.5 which is not bleeding edge. They ship it linked
against OpenMotif 2.2.3 which is not bleeding edge.
> We have no issues with any of the proprietry Motifs.
Except that you can't fix bugs in closed source software.
> With the exception
> of cygwin, all the rest can legally use OpenMotif.
Source code available, but not Free Software. I am not going to fix
bugs in source code that is under a non-free license.
> I don't have an AMD box. I do have a EM64T bit Intel box. I can put 64
> bit Slackware on that and try a 64 bit NEdit and OpenMotif.
The problem is, all of the issues I am having is on 32 bit. The ubuntu
nedit/openmotif works quite well on my x86-64 box.
Erik
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