Re: jed on Debian and Ubuntu

[Dave Laird <dlaird@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning, everyone...

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 3:37 am, Romano Giannetti wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:47:06AM +0200, G. Milde wrote:

> > On 20.06.06, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> > > A little question for the list: I have just installed ubuntu at home,
> > > and that downgraded my jed to 16-111.
> >
> > Just curious: what distribution (or OS) did you have before? And which
> > jed version?
>
> Mandriva 2006. And I had a personally compiled jed  B0.99.17-165.

I did almost the same thing, as I migrated from Mandriva to Ubuntu Dapper
just last week, and never will regret it.

> > > Is there any plan to upgrade it to -18 version?
> >
> > The Debian JED Group is working on a release of jed|xjed -18. There is
> > already a 0.99.18-1 package available in the /experimental section of the
> > Debian archive.
> >
> > A new version 0.99.18-2 is ready to be released to Debian/unstable soon.
> > As Ubuntu is Debian based, it is very likely to go to the next Ubuntu
> > release as well.

> Yes, but the next release of ubuntu will a "a bit crazy one"... for this I
> asked if someone was proposing it for backport to Dapper. I can ask it
> myself when Ubuntu Dapper backports opens... someone knows who is the jed
> package maintainer in Ubuntu? And, is there difference between Ubunto jed
> and debian jed?

There apparently IS a bit of a difference between the two, but if you run
apt-get install or dpkg -i they both report the same version, but install
in different places, is all. I do know, based upon my experiences, that
Ubuntu and Debian packages seem to work in either environment, with only
very minor dependency issues. 

> > If you would like to help testing the package(s), I could mail you the
> > most current versions. Or you could fetch the sources from the SVN and
> > build yourself (if you go for this option, I will gladly provide more
> > details about this process).
>
> Yes, I can test packages. I have not a lot of time, but I think that doing
> a package upgrade is quite easy...

To this I'll add I wish I could help testing packages, but right now Jed
is mission-critical to a work project I am involved with. However, within
a week or perhaps less, I will be building a test bench for another
project and might consider integrating Jed into something like that, then.

FWIW, I've tested Jed on the following x86 distributions:

Mandriva:  I forgot the version, but Mandriva left me frustrated at how
slowly it executed and various other reasons.

CentOS: No support at all. I had to dig around to find an RPM that would
work with their broken Slang configuration.

RedHat: Ditto

Debian: Works right from the packages, but limited support for my high-end
video-TV card

Unbuntu: All from Debian/Ubuntu packages:

Jed Version: B0.99.17-111
S-Lang Version: 2.0.5
Dictd-server running
Very smooth and nice. 

Faster than whatever is in second place, and having a working dictd-server
available really makes it sweet, but neither CentOS nor RedHat seem to
think that is important enough to support. 

Dave
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