Re: Motif support

[Po Lu]

Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:

> Same here.  And I hear there is an opensource revival of CDE, which
> should be encouraged.
>
> It always helps to test "standard emacs" behaviour on another toolkit
> rather than letting the behaviour slide

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > > 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.
> 
> And now we've had (at least) a couple complaints, so perhaps we should
> reconsider.  It did take almost a full year, so the complaints
> aren't...  vigorous, though.

For the reasons mentioned above, and also because Martin and I think
someone else was also using the Motif build even though support was
dropped, I think we should back out of this change.  It's not too late,
and I don't think the discussion ever ended conclusively either.