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GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the core-applications dept.

AmiMoJo brings news about gedit, the default text editor for GNOME: In a post to the gedit mailing list, Sébastien Wilmet states that gedit is no longer maintained and asks "any developer interested to take over the maintenance of gedit?" Just in case you were considering it, he warns "BTW while the gedit core is written in C (with a bit of Objective-C for Mac OS X support), some plugins are written in Vala or Python. If you take over gedit maintenance, you'll need to deal with four programming languages (without counting the build system). The Python code is not compiled, so when doing refactorings in gedit core, good luck to port all the plugins (the Python code is also less "greppable" than C). At least with Vala there is a compiler, even if I would not recommend Vala."
Sébastien's comments were surrounded by a <rant-on-languages> tag, but they're still crying out for some serious discussion. Any Slashdot readers want to share their own insights on Python, some fond thoughts on gedit, or suggestions for maintaining a great piece of open source software?

7 of 239 comments (clear)

  1. Who uses it anyway? by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't gedit.

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  2. Patience is a virtue by timlewis_atlanta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just wait for systemd-geditd

    1. Re:Patience is a virtue by tero · · Score: 3, Funny

      Fairly certain systemd is about to completely re-write emacs from scratch as a systemd service. It's vital for init sequence.

  3. Open Source problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That can basically happen to any open source software at any time. That's why it's better to use professional grade software such as Windows 10 Pro. Continuity.

  4. Re:Use XeD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know if I'm ready for such bleeding edge features as:

    View CVS changelogs

    For now, I'll stick to RCS changelogs, thank you!

  5. gedit has sure ticked me off by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 3, Funny

    He says using it for this post. I have a rather large hosts file. Using gedit I sorted it alphabetically and closed it without saving. It's now sorted.

  6. Re:and? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    just let it die

    But then we'll have no way to open files saved in gedit's proprietary plaintext format! I've literally got hundreds of .txt files on my hard drive!

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