Re: Removing MULTI_KBOARD

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:07:12 -0400
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> 	Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >> How it is not a problem, if the MSDOS port does not support
> >> MULTI_KBOARD?  I must have missed the explanation, please repeat it.
> >
> > If anyone is going to get the MSDOS port working again, then the effort
> > in getting it working with MULTI_KBOARD is going to be similar to or
> > less than the work required to get the rest of post-multi-tty Emacs
> > working without MULTI_KBOARD. The reason W32 and Mac now use
> > MULTI_KBOARD is that the multi-tty changes basically forced it. The
> > changes were minor compared with what else needs doing to revive the
> > MSDOS port after the unicode and multi-tty merges.
> 
> That's my impression as well.

I guess we will see if these impressions are true.