From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Motif support
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:58:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB9PR09MB498654A6B8A8D5B84A9B7CC8967D9@DB9PR09MB4986.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czlrvbf5.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:05:34 +0100")
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 11:28:47 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
>
> Lars> Well, we ended the thread with:
>
> >> > We could just remove support for '--with-x-toolkit=motif' from
> >> > configure.ac for a while, and see if anyone complains. If not, we rip
> >> > out the actual Motif code.
> >>
> >> Sounds like a plan.
>
> Lars> And now we've had (at least) a couple complaints, so perhaps we should
> Lars> reconsider. It did take almost a full year, so the complaints aren't...
> Lars> vigorous, though.
>
> It looks like I wrongly assumed that the people who still build Emacs
> with Motif support tracked master, and would thus all jump out and
> complain instantly about my heinous crime. It looks more like they
> wait for a new release, and this change is not in a released
> version of Emacs (and Iʼve seen no messages from the alleged CDE
> people affected by this).
>
> If thereʼs a strong will to put it back, we can of course do so, but I
> was hoping to achieve more removals of problematic display code. If
> even such a small change is rejected, then I lose hope we will ever
> achieve such simplifications.
I feel said. Is there really anyone in the world who cares for Motif?
Emacs C source is full of spaghetti-if-defs all over the place. It would be nice
if it was cleaned of some old stuff not cared by more than 5 people.
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2021-12-19 2:04 ` Motif support Po Lu
2021-12-19 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 7:14 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 7:35 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 7:56 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2021-12-19 9:12 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 10:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-19 10:41 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 10:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-19 10:58 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 11:07 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 11:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-19 11:39 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 12:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-19 12:23 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 14:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-19 14:27 ` dick
2021-12-19 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-20 2:12 ` Aiko Kyle
2021-12-20 3:13 ` Po Lu
2021-12-20 4:16 ` Akira Kyle
2021-12-20 4:43 ` Po Lu
2021-12-20 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-20 19:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-20 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-20 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-20 21:07 ` Akira Kyle
2021-12-20 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-20 4:56 ` Po Lu
2021-12-22 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-22 4:40 ` Po Lu
2021-12-23 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-23 4:47 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 11:29 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 10:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-20 10:05 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-20 10:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <87ee671s9o.fsf@yahoo.com>
2021-12-20 10:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-21 1:01 ` Po Lu
2021-12-21 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-21 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-21 17:47 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-21 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-21 18:02 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-21 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-22 0:53 ` Po Lu
[not found] ` <875yrj1ro7.fsf@yahoo.com>
2021-12-21 5:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <87a6gv1s47.fsf@yahoo.com>
2021-12-20 11:09 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-20 19:32 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-22 15:58 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-12-22 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-12-23 7:21 ` Madhu
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2021-12-23 9:32 ` Arthur Miller
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2021-12-23 11:53 ` Arthur Miller
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2021-12-19 8:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-19 9:13 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 10:14 ` martin rudalics
2021-12-20 0:15 ` Madhu
2021-12-20 1:42 ` Po Lu
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2021-12-21 16:15 xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
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2021-12-22 0:51 ` Po Lu
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2021-12-23 11:17 ` Po Lu
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2021-12-24 0:40 ` Po Lu
2021-12-23 22:41 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-22 17:26 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-22 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-22 19:14 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-22 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-22 20:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-22 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-12-23 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-23 7:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-23 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-23 11:46 ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-23 11:52 ` Po Lu
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2021-12-23 12:52 ` Po Lu
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2021-12-24 8:24 ` Stefan Kangas
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2021-12-24 2:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-24 2:43 ` Po Lu
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