Curious about next version

[Joerg Fischer]

Eric Bouyoux wrote:

>Does it mean that nedit is dead (or about to die) and that no more
>release will be available in a near future ?

No, and I don't have any idea which part of what I wrote the 'it'
should refer to.  (Perhaps you didn't know that the last release Mark
led was 5.1.1 and there were a couple of releases since then.)

>To my point of view, 2.5 years without any new release means that the
>project is dead.

Different projects have different release policies.  The last release
of jedit they call stable is from August 2004, but they did many
pre-releases (whatever this means) of their next version.  Moreover,
when were the last stable xemacs or emacs releases?  And TeX must be
rotten at least, according to your view.

Anyway, there is a difference, that concerns me since a few years
already.  Emacs and TeX are self-contained (jedit depends on java, but
this was open sourced recently), while nedit depends on the Motif
libs. Ever tried to compile w/o them?  So, no Motif - no nedit. And
the future of Motif doesn't look so bright, if things don't change.

On the other hand, just imagine there would be a community around
CDE/Motif similar to KDE/QT or Gnome/GTK.  But therefore it is
necessary to fix the broken Open Motif license.

That's why I'm so interested in the petition[1] to open source CDE/Motif. 
I saw that a lot of folks on this list signed the petition - thanks to
all. (BTW, the petition is still open for signing.) 
  

Jörg


[1]  http://marutan.net/cde/