GNU bug report logs - #26180
Remove motif toolkit support

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:15:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.2

Done: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 26180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 26180 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#26180: Remove motif toolkit support
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:49:22 -0400

martin rudalics wrote:

> As a matter of fact, the only person affected by such a change in the
> positive sense could be me: I'd have one build less to care about.

If you are really saying that only you would benefit from this
simplification (?), then I disagree with you.

> Still, it's sometimes reassuring when both Lucid and Motif handle a
> strange case the same way.

If this is the best (so far the only?) reason to keep Motif,
then it's pretty weak, IMO.
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