Ported nedit-5.5

[Erik van der Kouwe]

Dear all,

I have ported nedit-5.5 to MINIX. Source and binary packages can be
found on http://www.few.vu.nl/~vdkouwe/minix/.

This program is a graphical text editor, similar to Notepad on Windows
but including syntax highlighting and a tabbed interface. This might
help new MINIX 3 users who are unfamiliar with vim and emacs. For more
info see http://www.nedit.org/.

The following packages are required for compilation:
- binutils-2.16.1
- gcc-4.1.1
- lesstif-0.93.96
- make-3.80
- X11R6.8.2

For more information, see readme.txt_Minix3 in the source package.

With kind regards,
Erik van der Kouwe

[bittin]

nice :)

[Ondekoza]

It encouraging to see more and more ports coming in.

Nevertheless I see the urgent need to setup an infrastructure to
manage ports.

Several questions have to be considered here:

* Do we want to supply binary packages or only src?
* Should the packages be hosted on a single host with mirrors or
decentrally?
* How do we setup a review process for new/modified packages? (At
least check compilability)
* Is the current package-description file format suffcient?
(dependencies?)
* Who decides which packages shall be part of the base system?

Is there any one from the Minix core developer team assigned to
consider these questions? If not, I propose to find some one really
soon now, before the number of packages and depencies reaches a level,
that cannot be overseen by a single person.

keep up the good work.
Stefan Schroeder - ondekoza

[Tom Chandler]

Being one of the "guilty parties", (trying to port new packages to minix3), I

agree completely with this user comments.

 

My concern on the currently ported packages is what I believe is the lack

of documentation.  Several of these packages I have downloaded and try

to rebuild, but had very little if any documentation.

 

Please, I am not downplaying the effort, it is/has been great.

 

But I do believe we need to get a management system in place, or

new users will be confused and become discouraged.

 

My .02 cents.

 

Thank You

Tom chandler

[Mike Price]

Thanks Erik! This will make things a lot more productive for me.