From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 13:10:22 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 24A4516A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59CD43D1D for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:10:21 -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 i19LALfo021935; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:10:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:10:21 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith In-Reply-To: <4027F62A.8010209@math.missouri.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Adam McLaurin 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 21:10:22 -0000 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