From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:26:14 +0200 Message-ID: <58E34A96.6000504@gmx.at> References: <58D380BE.5050107@gmx.at> <71b46c9e-b1e1-416f-2d00-a86516628a5e@yandex.ru> <58D38425.4060803@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491290845 1166 195.159.176.226 (4 Apr 2017 07:27:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 07:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 26180@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 04 09:27:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cvIru-0007Ma-8k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:26:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:mVjzHoNJv1cfhlqyKY5EeiS1zOPK2JXJudR64Nt/E1yL+pyKw+H frsI5T8ttG1bO6pDRSjhXCNghCnwgpEqds0H6A691unWpFkfHuNOBzx/B563YCa+Wi+myPQ hMCoc82zghh/r7vCXVpbPr4t4GUGvFqsleKCY1pxuB6B/hbrzVymZXfi3iXIcc4ArTcRGik jWhRNPLrtSTiw6iXCP7Aw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:M0VhnKFWNhU=:lqF/uVR8plkMkNLkAoptA9 wFS/znwFWtEKgeXdCQjrnXneCoaFlg0XzTnJIlvjWonzjF9XLdRER47mnUlyFGZBoVQ+OjOZp Nvaij1ErjefaSGij7KFBl9RQegvI7nLesUNB7M1+lbaT7Le9IRxgXPfRZK9O7gJScUUQwCGIG qHUcFIVPc6bDnp0NyEmCxdShmROs6OCvDoZEO5vLJ5wgylKm6uAcCfp37E2scrZGYus5Q3dya th6+jfDrwS4fYWHmKfDIFxgYVGhwNBXnnzBuHYSHmRIEpvJkwDPPkxrTSoK41cNYSqsFm+BXB dGQHhgxOI/a4ZDjF7VPsexbnt5aIOpl2AFlt3BMu1TYURzDyQ9apANlGMrUVrCpRZjAMER8g9 zo4ZQHBlNbQMIWx+XGpwSIlrRq7ZpkKkBlCG3fqqvh7ZZKB/HkisAfE/e1zMhKu9gqug7E28I J9IGhNuP0ww1HRxAQdwi88lWPsYTE5F7jCiqtHyiEC7HOirobFiv7y2zSgUl+n7u4twOC+N4s fNxQQv9JVlkpP0By+Kr6JeK9BrWqIGOVbjyr3EsDTroU9ufbzTlwVHH2Tf80RA4L/zYm+8Ae3 FEKn878YApSpesHcf9VFrSav0yTb/A9uSAHIrkBesxJHzMvBO4WtqRj58U6Nk/x1YAjisEeAL 1JdPKQu595RccnpnhCITS3dIdU+iTqzJLhs0EJfdC3LIuhLwFo1D539qA51Uw4He+KdoRD+hs nXJMx1Fu72fNvRRcAYuGTZ2YaxZUOasSozKUsgrCC5Ljfiuj7ACRsDSEfiQ7VYP7RXEnAPyO X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:131263 Archived-At: >> As a matter of fact, the only person affected by such a change in the >> positive sense could be me: I'd have one build less to care about. > > If you are really saying that only you would benefit from this > simplification (?), then I disagree with you. Can you tell me where Motif support is hindering progress in any other area? >> Still, it's sometimes reassuring when both Lucid and Motif handle a >> strange case the same way. > > If this is the best (so far the only?) reason to keep Motif, > then it's pretty weak, IMO. If it's our aim to reduce the number of bug reports, the best solution would be to remove GTK support and make the Motif build the default one. I still don't get it why you so fervidly want to remove sane and stable branches from the Emacs tree. Spring-cleaning? martin