Motif

[Joerg Fischer]

Thomas Orgis wrote:

> > Motif/Xt nedit.
> 
> Well, rewrite using plain Xt? Do what GIMP did once -- the nedit tool
> kit! ;-)

I heard this proposal before, too. But again, for lack of time even
a source release is pending, so who is talking about switching toolkits
or developing just another one? (20 months of spare time would count more
than some donation of money, btw ;-)

> If this is such a nice snapshot that has proven to be stable...

Sorry, I didn't quite intend to suggest something like this. My fault,
I know. What I meant is, I have no idea how the newer releases behave
since I'm using something older for years, which I recall is somehow
different from the "official" release, but I forgot why I didn't switch.

Of course one can't distribute a program if you know it'll crash when 
closing a drop down menu. The trouble with lesstif was that this 
project released so much not really well-tested stuff, and if nedit
crashes the users blame it to nedit and not to some toolkit they
aren't even aware of. (I would do so too if I wouldn't know more.)

So, perhaps someone (you?) could trace the crash, and perhaps find
out that it's just a typo or a missing check for null pointers?

> > Actually, the sources you got is the
> > stable nedit by now.
> 
> So one can just name it as such and put out a source tarball?

You know the license. It's just a matter of wording whether to call
it beta, under development (and scare users away) or to find some
more neutral terminology which doesn't claim the thing would be
unstable so you couldn't use it for real work.

> That is a bit sad as in those extra features kept in private ... ?

Come on, there is a patch tracker on SF, don't you know? It isn't 
unusual, if you don't get things in a release to patch the sources
to your liking and use that instead. Come on, I'm sure you know
it's free software ;-)

--Jörg