Forking NEdit [was:Backlighting ... + split underline ...]

[Joerg Fischer]

Scott Tringali wrote:

> I don't see any need to fork the repository, unless you really don't 
> like SourceForge or CVS.  You're welcome can do an experimental branch 
> right here.  Nobody's asked, though.
> 
> Or, if you can put it right into the mainline if someone actually steps 
> up to put a full release together.
> 
> It would be nice if that included other non-Linux platforms such as AIX 
> or Solaris, but I realize almost nobody is interested in that these 
> days.  

What I refered to was something like

http://www.nedit.org/faq/sect_features.php#N593

I just like to see an nedit version with some of the over 80 patches
in the tracker ;-) This naturally can't be a release expected to work
stable on all the systems nedit works on.  At least, I have only
Cygwin and a single Linux distro to test on.

> The problem I see is not lack of interest in coding features, but a lack 
> of interest in doing the release engineering.

I think such interest normally comes from new features: 5.1 had a
major upgrade of the regex engine, 5.2 introduced arrays in the macro
language, 5.3 was mainly a bugfix release but also implemented a new
help system (where Mark shortly reappeared), 5.4 had calltips and
rangesets and 5.5 tabs, to mention just the main points from memory.

Now, 5.6 has lots of fixes and I think it should be released as it is.
Nobody said what still would be left to do minimally.  Are there any
bugs left that are really showstoppers?  

Jörg