Curious about next version and developer updates

[Offer Kaye]

On 5/29/07, Thorsten Haude wrote:
>
> The problem is
> really that NEdit is dyed-in-the-wool Xt/Motif, and it would be a
> major rewrite to change that. Now considering that we cannot even
> agree on (I think) necessary maintenance work...
>

Only thing I can say is, I love NEdit for many reasons.
I love it for the fact that it's a single executable file, I love it
that it will ran on the limping-old Sun-Solaris 5.8 stations as well
as the stripped-bare Linux-without-even-GTK2-installed I use at work.
If it didn't work on them, I'd be forced to use vim and probably my
head would have exploded years ago or something :)
So I wouldn't want you as devs to pick a solution that would take
NEdit away from me. Please, keep supporting the older OSes, at least
for now, if you can.

But really, as a user, I would also love to see new features. NEdit
project last release was almost 3 years ago. While I don't expect any
time commitment from a free project, what doesn't grow, will
eventually wither and die. How many people will still be using NEdit
in 2, 3, 5 or 7 years from now if it doesn't give them the features
they want, compared to other solutions? Other editors aren't standing
in place, eventually they too will have easy editing of blocks of
text, superb Search-and-Replace and a great macro system. Maybe for
now NEdit is safe as the best simplest-yet-good-for-programmers
editor, but this will not be forever.

Even support of older OSes can eventually be too much a burden. Heck,
at the rate NEdit is changing, you could branch it off to OldNEdit
while porting NEdit to a better world for all. OldNEdit will still be
around for the few people who need it on really old /
unsupported-by-the-new-toolkit OSes and will not be maintained, or at
least very little. Isn't this already the case anyway, de-facto?

Probably morally wrong of me to ask other people to contribute time
and effort to a project they won't get paid for, so I volunteer to
help with the new docs, if a NEdit ever gets new life. At least I can
help a little :)

I'll shut up about this now, regardless of what you decide. For now,
NEdit is still da-best!

Cheers,
-- 
Offer Kaye