On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Kurt Lidl <l...@pix.net> wrote: > 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 have checked that. It's just a latest nvi 1.85. > > 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 > -- Zhihao Yuan The best way to predict the future is to invent it. _______________________________________________ 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"
