Hi Riccardo, On Thu, 2025-10-16 at 15:32 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > > Unfortunately the one upstream developer who knew the lisp code hasn't > > been involved in xedit in many years. > > Maybe he can still have a look for a beer :) > I reported the bug so it is tracked at least.
Alan is one of the maintainers taking care of X.Org upstream these days, so your bug report landed on his desk ;-). > > Except that we don't ship xedit in Solaris - emacs, vim, nano, & gedit > > seem to be enough to satisfy our users. (We don't build emacs with the > > optional tree-sitter support in Solaris, so don't hit problems with its > > node.js dependency as you do.) > > > > I see, a pity it is not shipped, it is always a handy editor that > (usually) never fails. > I prefer vim and emacs usually, but xedit is fast and reliable > especially over network. And I am without vim and emacs on Linux/sparc, > that's an issue currently. FWIW, I have rescheduled emacs on sparc64 and it built successfully, should be installable again now. > maybe we should disable tree-sitter, although tree-sitter itself is > declared to be just POSIX without dependencies, so I wonder how we get > entabgled in the NodeJS damnation! I still don't know what tree-sitter is and what's it needed for. > > I'll see if we can figure this out as spare time allows, but it's not a > > priority. (As you can see from the new bug being only the third bug > > reported against xedit in years, it's not widely used today.) > > > > Stable code needs little work! Few bugs isn't always a problem! Well, stable code will need to be kept buildable with modern compilers and libraries, so the maintenance costs are never zero, although very little. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
