Re: Hourglass only for X-windows?

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> I find it very hard to guess what this define is for without reading the
> code. Using names like HAVE_MOUSE, HAVE_HOURGLASS makes it much more easy to
> guess IMO. And I think that is important if you are scanning the code
> quickly trying to find things, see the structure etc.

Conditional compilation constants are not comments. They are not there to
assist your reading of the code, they are there to enable that code
when appropriate. For that purpose, it is actually clearer to have the
constants named so that the conditions under which that code is
enabled is obvious. Having hourglass code surrounded by HAVE_HOURGLASS
is not adding anything, because the actual conditions under which
hourglass cursors are available depend on the platform, not some
configure test. Also someone debugging why hourglass cursors do
not work on a Mac might miss the fact that they are only enabled on X
and W32, that is not likely if we list the real conditions under which
that code is enabled.