Future of NEdit?

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Tim Hubberstey wrote (2007-11-27 02:20):
>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.

This might work for the binaries we distribute, but they are regularly
more stable than anything else anyway. The problem is that most
distribution would want to build their own stuff.


>Or, how about adopting one of the least buggy versions of Lesstif for 
>static linking and figuring out how to work around the bugs, possibly by 
>writing "wrappers" for troublesome calls. After all, the feature set of 
>Motif is "carved in stone" so there's no need to worry about 
>enhancements -- all it needs to do is work.

I wouldn't be so sure about this. New features might help us with our
Unicode problem.


>Or, is it possible to emulate Motif with wrappers making calls to the 
>toolkit(s) of choice? Speed of execution is no longer an issue given 
>today's processor speeds.

You suggest that we write an Adapter which speaks Motif at our end and
eg. Qt at the other? Nice idea. Certainly worth to consider, though I
wouldn't be surprised if it would end up being more difficult than
switching altogether.

Wait, wasn't Trolltech selling something like that?

Yep, they do:
    http://trolltech.com/products/qt/addon/solutions/catalog/4/Migration/qtmotifextension

Why is it so damn hard that to get a price information out of them?


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