Future of NEdit?

[Joerg Fischer]

Pieter Masereeuw wrote:

> In response to Joerg Fischer who elaborates about the technical background
> of the environment in which Nedit is living: of course you are right. But
> my point is that users shouldn't care about there being a Motif, a Lesstif
> or whatever. 

My point was, they needn't care on Unix systems - simply grab the
sources and do a 'make [system]'.

Your point is based on the assumption Linux = Unix.  If this
assumption would be true, there wouldn't be any problems.

All nedit.org can do for Linux is to provide statically linked
binaries and to inform about problems with certain versions of lesstif
and openmotif.  In practise these binaries may fail if the target
systems do changes after a release.  This is the case for 5.5 for
instance.

Btw, I'm still here to share what I know about nedit with other users.
I'm not worried about how many folks still use nedit.  Also, there are
so many Linux distributions[1] that I can't know about problems on
some specific Linux system.

Jörg


[1] Actually anyone can create one - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org -
    and give it whatever fantasy name comes to mind.