Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:09:56 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:


    Eli>   . analyze the bug report in debbugs DB, and see how many builds are
    Eli>     with any of these toolkits

(turns out that athena == lucid, so weʼre down to 5)

Totally unscientific stats from debbugs mailboxes from Jan 2018
through to Sep 2020:

~/.../archives/emacs-bugs
$ grep '^In.*pc-linux-gnu' 2018-* 2019-* 2020-*|wc -l
1594
~/.../archives/emacs-bugs
$ grep '^In.*pc-linux-gnu' 2018-* 2019-* 2020-*|grep -i gtk|wc -l
1274
~/.../archives/emacs-bugs
$ grep '^In.*pc-linux-gnu' 2018-* 2019-* 2020-*|grep -i 'x toolkit'|wc -l
268
~/.../archives/emacs-bugs
$ grep '^In.*pc-linux-gnu' 2018-* 2019-* 2020-*|grep -i 'motif'|wc -l
3

So itʼs ~80% GTK, 16% Lucid, and Motif can be removed.

    Eli>   . look at GNU/Linux distros and see if they still provide builds
    Eli>     with any of these toolkits, and what was the last version of Emacs
    Eli>     when they did

Debian provides gtk, lucid, and no-x builds.

Robert