Re: Cleaning out old X11 toolkits?

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:42:36 -0500, Stefan Monnier 
>>>>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:

    >>> if no one uses it?
    >> IIUC no one uses --with-x-toolkit=no

    Stefan> I don't know if noone does, but I do think it's one of the targets 
we
    Stefan> could throw out.  I suspect it would simplify more of the code than
    Stefan> removign Motif, since the no-toolkit is somewhat atypical (has 
special
    Stefan> events and code for scrollbars, and treats menus differently than 
the
    Stefan> rest of the code, AFAIK).

Itʼs also more likely to break in future as the world moves to
Wayland, and direct X11 access becomes unsupported.

    >> or --without-x builds either,

    Stefan> This is in use, OTOH, typically for headless machines where you 
don't
    Stefan> want to bother installing the X11 libs, for Termux, and things like 
that.

    Stefan> There's an `emacs-nox` package in Debian for that, for example.
    Stefan> I don't know how its popularity compares to the `emacs-lucid` 
package.

I donʼt know, but a no-gui emacs build is definitely worth preserving.

Robert