Re: Removing MULTI_KBOARD

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

  > > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:47:53 -0400
  > > From: emacs-diffs-request@gnu.org
  > > 
  > > --- src/ChangeLog	30 Jul 2008 21:45:32 -0000	1.6815
  > > +++ src/ChangeLog	31 Jul 2008 02:47:26 -0000	1.6816
  > > @@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
  > > +2008-07-31  Dan Nicolaescu  <dann@ics.uci.edu>
  > > +
  > > +	* s/ms-w32.h (MULTI_KBOARD): Remove.
  > > +	* xterm.c:
  > > +	* xselect.c:
  > > +	* xfns.c:
  > > +	* window.c:
  > > +	* w32term.c:
  > > +	* w32fns.c:
  > > +	* terminal.c:
  > > +	* termhooks.h:
  > > +	* term.c:
  > > +	* sysdep.c:
  > > +	* keyboard.h:
  > > +	* keyboard.c:
  > > +	* frame.h:
  > > +	* frame.c:
  > > +	* frame.c: Remove references to MULTI_KBOARD, it is now the
  > > +	default.
  > 
  > Did we agree to remove these conditionals?  The MS-DOS port does not
  > support MULTI_KBOARD, so now it is more broken than it was before.

The code now is cleaner and easier to read.  Unused code does not get in
your way as it used to happen before.
The difference in usage from a port point a view is minimal: a single
static object vs a single dynamically allocated object. The full history
is available in CVS.