Future of NEdit?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Tim Hubberstey wrote:

> From what's been said, the issue seems to be primarily with a 
> particular flavor of Linux. Would it be possible to statically link 
> NEdit to the commercial release of Motif? 

Sorry, that is not an acceptable solution. My guess is that a 
large proportion of people running Linux are doing so because
the believe in open source software. If you give those people 
a choice between a statically linked nedit and dozens of true 
open source editors and nedit won't even get a look in.

> My point is that there must be ways of dealing with these problems that 
> don't require scrapping huge chunks of the code base.

Noone is scrapping huge chunks of any code base.

What is happening is that on Linux distros where nedit is broken,
people who try nedit for the first time discard it immediately
and people like me who have been using it for some time (12 years 
in my case) start wondering what is easiest, fixing nedit/motif or
becoming used to a slightly less featureful but stable open source
editor.

Erik
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