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From: Philip A. <pa...@be...> - 2003-04-24 18:43:31
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Philip Aston writes: [Re-sending because the original I sent on 16/4/03 hasn't appeared in the archives]. Slava Pestov writes on 9 April: > On April 8, 2003 11:36 am, Philip Aston wrote: > > 1. Is jEdit Syntax still under active development? There doesn't > > seem to be an awful amount of activity. > > The last version of jEdit that had a fully pluggable text area was > jEdit 2.3. jEdit-syntax currently contains jEdit 2.2 code. Is there > any interest in me releasing the jEdit 2.3 code under a public > domain license? I already got permission from all contributors some > time ago, but never got around to doing it. The main improvement in > the 2.3 text area was a line number gutter. Speaking personally, I don't think this gives me too much over the current version of jEdit-syntax; it would still be "forked and forgotten" code at the end of an evolutionary tree. > > 2. Its a fork of a subset of jEdit; are there any plans to take > > future merges from JEdit? > > One of the planned enhancements in jEdit 4.2 is an independent > syntax package. The old syntax engine used in jEdit-syntax was > independent, but the new code that reads token markers from XML > definitions has always been tied into the rest of jEdit. This sound great. > Note that the jEdit 4.2 syntax package will remain GPL'd. Any chance of it being LGPL'd? I need something that is compatible with my BSD like license. > Making the text area independent is a slightly harder task. The > text area itself is pretty modular, however it depends on the jEdit > document model, and the input handling code, both of which are very > closely tied to pretty much every other part of the editor. > > Throughout the 4.x series I'm slowly working toward a modular text > area. Once its done jEdit-syntax will be inline with jEdit and it > will be a killer text control; folding, word wrap, auto indent, > etc. and much faster than anything else out there. Droool... when can I have this? :-) Can I infer from this that you are definitely planning to release this in a jEdit-syntax form? And further that jEdit-syntax will incorporate the "jEdit 4.2 syntax package". (and now the killer question) what license? Many thanks, - Phil |
