Future of NEdit?

[Mark Hatch]

 Hi all,

See below. (I have added another developer from the OpenMotif team to the CC
list. Please include him in followups since he is not on the Nedit list.)

Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: develop-bounces at nedit.org 
> [mailto:develop-bounces at nedit.org] On Behalf Of Duane Clark
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:10 PM
> To: NEdit development list
> Subject: Re: Future of NEdit?
> 
> Mark Hatch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Given the *current* situation with Fedora and OpenMotif, 
> the OpenMotif 
> > team
> > (openmotif.org) is committed to providing prebuilt binaries for 
> > Fedora. They might be useful to the Nedit team.
> 
> Are you referring to:
> openmotif-2.3.0-0.3.fc7.ccrma.i386.rpm
> openmotif-devel-2.3.0-0.3.fc7.ccrma.i386.rpm
> 
> Because I have compiled nedit (and another Motif program) 
> against them. 
> They don't work for me (on an F7 X86_64 system).

Just to be sure we understand this. 
1. Where did you find the above two rpms? I double checked our ftp site and
didn't see them.
2. What is the nature of the problem. Is it that those rpms are 32 bit and
you need a native 64 bit version? 


> 
> Or is there something more recent which I have not found? 
> Because the only thing for Fedora that I can find here:
> http://www.motifzone.net/index.php
> (which is where openmotif.org directs downloads to) are FC5 
> and FC6 packages. There does not appear to be anything for 
> F7, F8 or F9. F7 has been around for quite a long time, so I 
> am afraid I have to question the level of commitment.

You are right. We need to either build OM 2.3 on Core 7 and Core 8 or
validate that the current binaries Core 6 version work on 7 and 8. Yura, can
you make this happen?

Since Core 9 is not released yet, I suspect we will wait on that one.


> 
> By the way, if openmotif were to support business Linux 
> users, I would expect support for current Redhat Enterprise 
> Linux. But that same site only provides prebuilt binaries for 
> REL3 and REL4. The current version is REL5, which has also 
> been out for awhile.

Unless my information is out of date, Red Hat continues to ship their own
builds of OpenMotif on their Enterprise versions. Turns out that a *lot* of
commericial software, including some very well known commericial database
systems, continue to use Motif in certain areas....

Consequently, since Red Hat ships it on Enterprise, we don't create a
special build. 

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