Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:10:21 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> Subject: Re: NEdit 5.4 and open-motif 2.2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10402091607440.21073-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <4027F62A.8010209@math.missouri.edu>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Adam McLaurin wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > In your comments for the NEdit 5.4 update, you say: > > "Update Nedit to 5.4. Note that our open-motif port is at 2.2.2 which > > is known to be buggy. It was pulled from the opengroup site. Nedit now > > checks the version of motif and issues a very loud warning when it is > > built." > > > > Should we take this as a warning not to use NEdit for mission-critical > > editing? I normally use NEdit for my conf files and such, as it's quite > > easy to use and traditionally extremely reliable. > > > > What's going on with the open-motif port? What is particularly buggy > > about it? > > > > Thanks. > > > > I am hoping that the open-motif port maintainer will downgrade the > open-motif port soon. I sent him an email the other day asking him > about it, but I have not heard back yet. There is an openmotif-2.2.3 out there somewhere, but I think that the NEdit developers still don't suggest using that one. > As for myself, nedit has never failed me. FYI, the problem with openmotif is not something special with only the 5.4 version of NEdit; 5.4 is just where they added the motif version check. -- Dan Eischen
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