Curious about next version and developer updates

[Joachim Lous]

On 5/29/07, Thorsten Haude <yoo at vranx.de> wrote:
> - Settings system is highly improvable.

I firsrt read that as "highly improbable", but that seems to fit, too :-)

> 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.

Alternatively it would require writing our own super-lightweight widget set
requiring only Xt, and porting to that.  Not impossible, but not very probable
either.

Using any other toolkit would either introduce dependencies on stuff
not availavble
on some platforms (where NEdit is the only good, stable graphical editor), or
force us to bloat the distro with the entire toolkit code (which would have to
be verified for all the platforms supported), so its no longer a
"small, fast editor".

Dropping supported platforms would undermine NEdit's reason for being.
For may usage scenarios, NEdit has already been surpassed on Linux in
ways that it is unlikely to catch up with. The core strengths these days is
the stunning range of systems it works on (in an age where nost projects
only target a couple of OSS OSes), the compactness, and single-file install-free
executable. Drop any of these, and it's a large step closer to dead.