From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 12:49:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2068216A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:49:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC66243D1D for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i19KnFfo016234; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:49:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:49:15 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Adam McLaurin In-Reply-To: <20040209153444.44484b0e.adam.mclaurin@gmx.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NEdit 5.4 and open-motif 2.2.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 20:49:17 -0000 On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, 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. Use it knowing that it might crash. Save your changes often. You may not experience any crashes. > What's going on with the open-motif port? What is particularly buggy > about it? See http://www.nedit.org/toolkit.shtml -- Dan Eischen