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The only text editor that I use is joe and someone has decided to remove it from Mageia. +</I>>><i> I took the Redhat Enterprise version and ported it to mageia. For a while the maintainers of joe has incorporated a bug that would make it such that it would core dump if you tried to open more than one file at a time. +</I>>><i> I am willing to maintain this package. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Michel +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> No problem, since you are willing to maintain it, as long as it makes it past QA. +</I>><i> (Which means the core dump problem would have to be solved, if not already.) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It would be an update to cauldron, and a backport for Mageia 1 (unless it was in Mandriva 2010.1/2, in which case it would be an update). +</I>><i> +</I>I think that the one in Mandriva core dumped. It doesn't on Centos, Scientific Linux or Fedora 15. +I would not update it to anything that core dumps. This was not just a problem on Mandriva but also on Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora. I don't understand why some people thinks that when it has compiled, it is done considering that this particular core dump was +very obvious. + +Michel + + +-- +For OS/2 and Linux Software visit +<A HREF="http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal">http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal</A> + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010165.html">[Mageia-dev] replace mysql by mariadb ? (was HEADSUP: mariadb available for testing) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010034.html">[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#10033">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#10033">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#10033">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#10033">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |