On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:40:44AM +0100, Johan van Selst wrote: > Zhihao Yuan wrote: > > > Could you please eleborate on the nvi-devel problems? I'm the current > > > maintainer of this port, and as far as I know it's fully functional. > > 1. It does not support non-Unicode encodings. Actually, these > > encodings are mainstream in multi-byte encodings world. A proper > > iconv-awared implementation should be able to handle all of the > > encodings in `iconv -l`; > > 2. It depends on DB3/4. We won't accept DB3/4 in base system and we > > won't accept nvi-devel. > > 3. It's not 100% compatible with nvi 1.79. > > Thank you for explaining. Indeed, all valid points and I fully agree > that nvi-devel is not fit for inclusion in base as it is. In fact, the > nvi from base is probably a better starting point (than nvi-devel) to > create an editor that is fully compatible with nvi 1.79 and supports all > multi-byte encodings. And when you, or someone, else creates such an > editor, I will be pleased to remove the obsoleted port of nvi-devel.
Has anyone looked at the nvi work that has taken place in NetBSD in the last year or so? I think they've put in a bunch of wide character support. I'm not sure if their DB code relies on bdb newer than what is in libc or not. -Kurt _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
