From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits? Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 21:10:52 +0200 Message-ID: <835z2ubh37.fsf@gnu.org> References: <07D5E64D-DAD0-45B3-B272-627A73D7CBAE@gmail.com> <459A0475-E3E7-4159-82DF-93809CCF1E24@gmail.com> <87eehng52n.fsf@gnus.org> <87mtwbye5b.fsf@gmail.com> <87czx7ycva.fsf@tcd.ie> <87eehmyalr.fsf@gmail.com> <877dneoewi.fsf@tcd.ie> <875z2yy6z7.fsf@gmail.com> <1c0598ce-c364-1711-8280-18e4ae091fb6@yandex.ru> <2fd8df6a-1993-fc1e-6e65-12938b0f57b3@gmx.at> <83y2ftdtkr.fsf@gnu.org> <5bde0ea3-8921-e17c-2390-243233ef2a34@gmx.at> <83sg61doxl.fsf@gnu.org> <9974c5a7-3276-9ec8-5e3b-4139c379f070@gmx.at> <87ft1yvn27.fsf@gmail.com> <83o8gmbqbm.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24266"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, rudalics@gmx.at, dgutov@yandex.ru, yandros@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 20:12:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lBMol-0006DJ-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:12:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58838 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBMok-00047c-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:12:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBMnG-0002mn-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:10:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBMnE-0003yU-OS; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1814 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lBMnE-0002Rz-3s; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:10:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:18:21 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:264762 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Robert Pluim , rudalics@gmx.at, casouri@gmail.com, > alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, > dgutov@yandex.ru, yandros@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:18:21 -0500 > > > OTOH, if no other toolkit exists on a system, or if no other toolkit > > builds with Emacs, the no-toolkit is the only way to have a GUI Emacs. > > So maybe it is worth preserving, especially as the amount of > > maintenance it requires is strictly zero. > > Is there a system where --with-toolkit=no can build > yet --with-toolkit=lucid can't? How can we possibly know? I'm talking about systems that are rare and obscure, not something we see every day.