Bug 213246

Summary:	app-editors/nvu is dead, should be dropped
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Albert Zeyer <albzey>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Albert Zeyer 2008-03-13 12:00:11 UTC

The development of NVU is stopped and the project is dead.

There are a lot of open upstream bugs.

NVU should be dropped out of Portage.



Some comments from gentoobugsie@gmail.com in bug 185245 to this topic:

    * yes, I know that Nvu was impossible to download from nvu.com. I pinged
Linspire and they updated the page.
       Everything should be ok now.
    * no, I have no more relationship with Linspire about Nvu.
    * yes, the name Nvu and its logo are protected.
    * no, I'm not helping on Kompozer and yes, I dropped Nvu entirely.
    * no, Composer is not dead at all, it's only evolving slowly because I'm
working on it on my spare time.
    * no, I don't think Kompozer is going to live a long time. Kompozer is only
a chrome bug-fix of Nvu and it's still based on the Mozilla 1.7 codebase. It's
obsolete. Compared to Composer, Nvu and Kompozer will look like dinosaurs
    * yes, Composer will be MPL.
    * yes, Composer's code is only minimally based on Nvu's.
    * no, Composer is only a code name. The final name is not chosen yet.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-13 12:02:43 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146761 ***