Re: Motif support

[Arthur Miller]

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.