Future of NEdit?

[Joerg Fischer]

Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:

> I know this has been mentioned before somewhere,
> but what about FLTK?  Don't they already use a
> hacked-up version of NEdit for their text widget?

Yes, the author of FLTK appeared on the list to ask Mark Edel whether
he could use parts of nedit in his toolkit, since FLTK isn't GPL'd.

They have an editor demo in their source distribution, which looks
like a very simplistic clone of nedit.  It's also a toolkit at least
as fast as Motif.

BUT, it's much more lightweight.  A resulting editor would never come
close to the thing we call nedit now.  This would also hold for any of
the other toolkits like Qt or GTK although for different reasons,
respectively.

Another point, FLTK seems to be a small project - what if it isn't
continued?

The only real argument[1] against OM is its broken license, at least I
came to doubt we would be better off with Qt, GTK, ..., in technical
terms.  Now, the license could be changed to GPL compatible - this is
the best option IMO, not only for us.

Jörg

[1] I think it is a real (severe) argument.