Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:05:46 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Adam McLaurin <adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEdit 5.4 and open-motif 2.2.2 Message-ID: <4027F62A.8010209@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040209153444.44484b0e.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> References: <20040209153444.44484b0e.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net>
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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. As for myself, nedit has never failed me. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen
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