Future of NEdit?

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Erik de Castro Lopo wrote (2007-11-25 11:04):
>For instance, changing from the Ubuntu Fiesty release to the newer
>Gutsy release meant a change from a nedit using lesstif on Feisty
>to OpenMotif on Gutsy. This was supposed to have been an improvement
>but I now see far more Nedit crashes in a week with OpenMotif than I 
>ever saw in a year with lesstif. These crashes are in the Motif
>libraries, so its not something than can be fixed by hacking on
>Nedit.

I haven't really researched this, but my gut tells me that Ubuntu is
to blame here. I installed Eft on my notebook, and while I was
initially thrilled that everything worked so well, some serious issues
came up little by little.

Currently I have nasty problems because Ubuntu likes UTF, but not all
of the apps do. I'm used to this with NEdit, but not with the terminal.


Now I found out that libmotif-dev is pretty broken, since it not even
depends on Xt or libc. I don't think that Motif is to blame for that.


I will now kick Ubuntu and install Lenny.


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