Future of NEdit?

[Andrew Hood]

Tim Hubberstey wrote:

> I run NEdit 5.5 on Win32 with Cygwin and a commercial X-server. I
> haven't had a segfault in ages.

In my earlier posting I didn't suggest I had segfaults with cygwin. I do
 see various strange behaviours like incomplete screen redraws, but I'm
not sure whether to blame them on LessTif, or cygwin's X or Xming (I've
used both and they both show similar problems).

I have tried Exceed 8.0 but it doesn't seem to like the ATI 2900XT video
drivers and the system runs extremely slowly. I'll try a later version
of Exceed to see if it works better than the free ones.

> 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? I would be willing to contribute to
> acquiring a license for the NEdit project if it would solve these kind
> of problems. I know it would make the image file larger but NEdit is
> still tiny compared to many of the bloated applications out there.

In the "standard" Linux build, NEdit is statically linked with OpenMotif
2.1.30. This does not suit the "OpenMotif is not free" crowd, who then
use whatever the current version of LessTif is, and the NEdit users
complain.

It might make more sense to statically link with OpenMotif 2.2.4 or
2.3.0. The builders may need to compile a static libXm as most
distributions only provide a shared library. A newer OpenMotif could
cure most of the UTF8 issues seen on newer Linuxes which use UTF8
encodings by default.

On Windows, cygwin has to use LessTif because the OpenMotif license does
not permit using it. Very little progress has been achieved in getting
the license changed. I expect Hummingbird and KEA might have something
to do with that.

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