Curious about next version and developer updates

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Offer Kaye wrote (2007-05-29 08:39):
>On 5/29/07, Thorsten Haude wrote:
>>Note that I'm not against adding features, just against adding
>>features before some fundamentals are fixed.
>
>Which fundamentals would you consider broken (or otherwise needing to
>be fixed)?

From the top of my head:
- NEdit is highly coupled, with a high-cohesion object smack in the 
  middle, which should be broken apart.
- No Unicode support.
- Settings system is highly improvable.

There were some attempts to fix all three, but most developers seem to
think that everything is fine.


>Personally the only fundamental issue I know of is the dependency on
>Motif, and as fixing that would require a complete re-write of NEdit
>from the ground up I can imagine this not happening for a while... :)

For all practical purposes the result of that is no longer NEdit. I'd
rather see it as a new project which borrows stuff from NEdit's
codebase.


Thorsten
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