Future of NEdit?

[Thomas Orgis]

Am Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:21:12 +0100
schrieb Thorsten Haude <yoo at vranx.de>: 

> 3. World
> 
>     - 32 vs. 64 bits
> 
> This doesn't look like it would be terribly difficult to handle, but
> it must be done, and it can't wait, so resources are missing elsewhere.

What is the problem? I'm using nedit (compiled with openmotif on Source
Mage GNU/Linux) on the only real 64bit PC system, DEC/Compaq Alpha;-),
and on x86_64 as well.
Didn't encounter any specific bug.
Though there is a crash I had a couple of times on Solaris/SPARC (not
sure if 32 or 64bit, actually) when nedit pops up two message windows
about changed/deleted file and I click on a button in the "wrong" one.
I'll try to nail that some time -- it seems to be pretty reliable to
reproduce.

>     - Death of Xfree86

Yup, no xfree86 on my boxen for a long time. Needless to say, the big
Xorg bug didn't seem to hit me;-)

>     - Sloppy Linux Distributors
> 
> A few years back, Red Hat shipped with some versions of Lesstif we
> considered to be broken. Now Ubuntu's NEdit has problems although it
> runs on a motif considered to be one of the stablest.

For Source Mage I dropped lesstif as possible nedit toolkit and made
nedit depend on openmotif only. Works out so far (currently
openmotif-2.2.3).

> On the other hand, at least Red Hat's packer spend considerable effort
> working on their NEdit; I'm sure other distributions are similar.

Hm, we have a bit of Makefile hacking and the renaming of nc to ncl in
Source Mage... apart from that we just compile it:

cd ${SOURCE_DIRECTORY}/makefiles &&
mv Makefile.linux Makefile.linux.tmp &&
sed -e "s/CFLAGS\=/CFLAGS:=-DBUILD_UNTESTED_NEDIT -DREPLACE_SCOPE /" \
    -e "s/-DUSE_LPR_PRINT_CMD/& \$\(CFLAGS\)/" \
    -e 's/\(LIBS=.*\) -Wl,-Bstatic -lXm -Wl,-Bdynamic \(.*\)/\1 -lXm \2 -lXft/' \
Makefile.linux.tmp > Makefile.linux &&
rm Makefile.linux.tmp &&
cd ${SOURCE_DIRECTORY} &&
make linux

> In any case, these people
> need to be on our mailing lists.

I joined as a user, but for one tiny source distro, I may qualify as
one of "these people";-)


Alrighty then,

Thomas.
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