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[Greg Edwards]

On 29/02/2008, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> The downside
> with this is, that NEdit users maybe overwhelmed with our release
> cycle speed ;-)


Nice one :=) I think the average user would expect say 6 to 12 month
releases. It's weird to look at the About Nedit (Version) popup and see Sep
2004. I know that's been said a million times.
The writer who commented that there are great new already-stable features
that could be added tomorrow, if we ignored total compatibility across all
platforms, has a point. Do you have a survey of platform numbers in use ?
You have to let go of some eventually. Like SGI Irix, they have almost no
workstations left. Sad for me to say that, having worked there 13 years.

What about using the X11/Motif emulation packages as your stable platform,
like Cygwin on Windows, and some add-on X11 package for other
Unixes/Linuxes. The X11 add-on on MacOS seems to work great for Nedit. Could
you solve the Motif 2.2 / OpenMotif / X11 / Xorg dilemmas by using a known
good add--on package ? Performance shouldn't be an issue, cpu speeds and
particularly memory sizes just keep rising. As several have said, get that
motivation back up by providing some means for release of everyone's great
new features and patches, and worry about the compatibility later.

How about charging for Nedit ? Would it help ? I'd perfectly happy to pay
$10/$20 for a shareware thing, I do it about once a month I guess. I'd pay a
lot more for my mainstream editor. But I don't think you're bottlenecked on
money.

My $0.02, I know it's all been said before, but hey when you have a 4 year
release cycle, you get to say it lots of times :=)

Greg E

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