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Re: --with-gtk as default?
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: --with-gtk as default? |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:07:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
> > >> Given that GNOME is considered part of the GNU project, should not be
> > >> --with-gtk be the default for compiling Emacs rather than Athena
> > >> widgets, at least where GTK+ is available?
> > >
> > > I don't have an opinion about this, but if we eventually do make this
> > > the default, please exclude Cygwin from the platforms that build with
> > > GTK+ by default, because as Jan discovered, the Cygwin build is
> > > currently incompatible with GTK+.
> >
> > Cygwin is basically an X11 build?
>
> I guess the various distributions will build Emacs with GTK, anyway.
> The advantage of Athena widgets may be that they build everywhere
> and, for that reason alone, I think it is the best choice for the
> default.
Why? If X11 is not available, we fall back to without-X. Would you
claim that without-X is for that reason the best choice for the
default? Because it builds on more platforms?
I'd say that trying for GTK+ as default and Xaw as fallback is
perfectly reasonable for an X11 build. Nowadays Xaw widgets are not
even as likely to be available as developer libraries as GTK+ is.
What builds everywhere for X11 is actually the "native" Lucid widget
version, not Xaw. And yet Xaw is the default, _when_ available.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- --with-gtk as default?, David Kastrup, 2007/02/27
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- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Jan Djärv, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Jason Rumney, 2007/02/28
- Re: --with-gtk as default?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/28